Using Google Books, a team at San Diego State University examined over a million books published in the United States between 1900 and 2008 to determine how frequently female pronouns appeared compared to male pronouns.
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In his new book, The Secret Life of Pronouns, psychologist James Pennebaker describes findings from his research on the relationship between natural language use, personality, and social life. 
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March 23, 2012 1:06 AM
The important caveat is that he says it requires counting and categorizing to determine the difference. The ear alone can't pick it up. Everyone uses a certain concentration of "I" words. Most of us amateurs would probably get derailed trying to analyze each other by the use of pronouns, unless it was undeniably excessive!
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The words we pay the least attention to in conversation--connectors like 'the', 'this', 'there', 'and' and 'that'--reflect our sexual desire and our place in society, says U of Texas psychologist James Pennebaker.
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We can predict by analyzing their language, who will go on a date — who will match — at rates better than the people themselves.
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