Blog #1 Yanyuwa: 'Men Speak One Way, Women Speak Another

I can personally identify with this article. Coming from a very traditional background and speaking another language besides english, I think the author does a great job describing the different ways in which men and women speak. In my native toungue, Hmong, we culturally have a couple of different ways in which one can speak as well. Like the Yanyuwa the Men in our culture have a different tone and certain words they would use during "meetings/debates" that both women and children would not. Also like the Yanyuwa the children of our culture's speech resembles more of the womens tone for the same reasons, because children are around the women more often. Unlike the Yanyuwa there is no initiation period where a boy must become a man. It is simply seen that when a boy starts looking like a man, he must start acting and talking like a man.