Because men have longer vocal cords and thus have deeper voices than women?

One wants to be understood
One doesn't want to be understood so the conversation will continue, or so they can blame you for not understanding later as a means to an end.

Simple.

Why do men and women talk differently?

Because women have more practice.

R.A.Danny: Because watching Cindy Crawford yell "Suck my dick" would be awkward at best.

Natalie Portman made it work

Cause women get used to talking with a penis in their mouths

We don't talk differently, he just doesn't want to understand. *cries*

Because men know how stupid it sounds to up-speak and overuse "and then," and "like"

We are wired differently

GET OVER IT!

cretinbob: Because you have to yell to be heard fromIN the kitchen?

Fixed...

because boobies

I think what the author had to say about women interrupting your conversation and gossiping is bullshiat. If a guy did that kind of thing the woman would say don't interrupt that's rude, and stop blabbing so much about other people. I know the author was just explaining the why, but there were a few double standards going on there.

whither_apophis: R.A.Danny: Because watching Cindy Crawford yell "Suck my dick" would be awkward at best.

Natalie Portman made it work

... demi moore?

/maybe missing a meme

Because if a man want's something he will simply say "I want that. " if a woman wants something she will talk about it for 30 minutes then just go get it herself and then biatch at you because you didn't pick up on the fact she was hinting for the last 30 minutes for you to get it for her?

lacrossestar83: Because men know how stupid it sounds to up-speak and overuse "and then," and "like"

Omigosh that is like so truuuee.
/Actually that just sounds flamboyant.

Because men have huge, fragile egos and one man talking makes another man feel small so that man has to talk louder than the first, finally escalating into intergalactic war. I've seen this happen many times.

According to this guy, I'm probably a woman, as are all the other guys I'm friends with. Not all men holler over each other and hoot when they're drunk.

St_Francis_P: CJHardin: Because women are just a life support system for a vagina.

That's a rather narrow viewpoint. If they're doing it right they support boobs, too.

Hey, don't forget the ass

Perhaps because many men and women feel the need to play a role instead of being themselves. My wife doesn't 'talk like a woman' and I don't 'talk like a man'. We talk like people.

Oh speech patterns never mind

I let the back of my hand do the talkin.'

JLEM: According to this guy, I'm probably a woman, as are all the other guys I'm friends with. Not all men holler over each other and hoot when they're drunk.

Indeed.

\the new 'this'

All I know is that I am out thought, out maneuvered, and out gunned by the fairer sex. While I play checkers, they play chess. I'm just happy they acknowledge me on occasion.

Wait, you mean all that noise women make all the time is some form of communication ?

I thought it was just the sound of gestating babbies.

Because men don't need drama.

Porous Horace: Because men have huge, fragile egos and one man talking makes another man feel small so that man has to talk louder than the first, finally escalating into intergalactic war. I've seen this happen many times.

THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!

Comedian: men, women different.

dustlesswalnut: JLEM: According to this guy, I'm probably a woman, as are all the other guys I'm friends with. Not all men holler over each other and hoot when they're drunk.

Indeed.

\the new 'this'

Also, apparently women evolved into inaudible duplicitous manipulative twats.

Rapmaster2000: Comedian: men, women different.

Penis go like dis. Vagina go like dis.

Why do men and women talk differently?

I'm more interested in why they seem to listen differently.

I hear a statement, I take it at face value, it means what the words say, no more, no less. My wife hears a statement, infers a few dozen Byzantine levels of hidden meanings, and treats them as being more real than the words themselves.

Apologies if I'm stereotyping. It's possible I'm clueless and she's crazy.

dustlesswalnut: JLEM: According to this guy, I'm probably a woman, as are all the other guys I'm friends with. Not all men holler over each other and hoot when they're drunk.

Indeed.

\the new 'this'

I was saying Indeed before it was cool (well, OK, before I started watching Stargate). Does that make me a hipster, or just clueless? Or both?

Men talk like meat shields (straight lines, economy of movement, maybe not a lot of thinking going on). Women talk like finesse fighters (flowing around the point, once you've caught up to them they've moved on to something else).

My current girlfriend is awesome (no mindgames, no expecting me to be psychic, just straightforward honesty). My psycho ex kept trying to retcon previous conversations and then scream at me for not understanding what she'd just decided she'd said last week. Either that, or just scream. My favourite was when she'd bite my head off for no reason, then berate me for being closed off and uncommunicative.

JLEM: Rapmaster2000: Comedian: men, women different.

Penis go like dis. Vagina go like dis.

Women be shoppin'!

phaseolus
I hear a statement, I take it at face value, it means what the words say, no more, no less. My wife hears a statement, infers a few dozen Byzantine levels of hidden meanings, and treats them as being more real than the words themselves.

So much this. My ex could find an insult in "good morning".

/"You clearly enjoy drama, because otherwise you'd stop being an asshole and make me happy."

dustlesswalnut: Indeed.

\the new 'this'

phaseolus: I'm more interested in why they seem to listen differently.

I hear a statement, I take it at face value, it means what the words say, no more, no less. My wife hears a statement, infers a few dozen Byzantine levels of hidden meanings, and treats them as being more real than the words themselves.

That's what happens when she chooses to infer that everything said in her presence is a personal attack. Lots of women do that, and then claim that men have big egos. If you think everything being said is about you, you're the one with the ego problem.