After reading the short article and chapter 5, what do you think about the alternative way of interpreting what is stereotyped as female patterned speech? How do you interpret female-patterned speech, and how do you interpret the way society interprets this pattern of speech? (very meta, I know). Do you think women (and men) should make attempts to eliminate more tentative forms of language? Or should we just like people talk the way they talk? Are the criticisms just another anthropocentric tendency and way of punishing something that is more feminine and elevating the opposite which is deemed more masculine? Or not? What do you think?