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(nick) Four-letter words Emotes, action words Punctua-tion pecu-liarities Extensive smiley usage Abbrevia-tions and acronyms Spoken inarticula-tions Intentional spelling peculiarities All lowercase Typing mistakes Romans x x x x x Spandex x Henrik x x x Sandis x x x x x Archie x x x Males total 3 1 0 2 3 2 1 2 3 Baiba x x x x Laura x x x Lori x Dorothy x x x x Karen x x x x x Females tot. 0 1 3 2 4 2 2 3 0 The table shows that there are almost no gender differences. However, a deeper study might show some results about the peculiarities, in the columns of which “0” appears. The hypothesis might be: • Four-letter words are used more by male than female writers • Females ignore punctuation rules more often then males do • Males make more unintentional spelling mistakes Victor Savicki as ...