The cardinal difficulty, said MacPhee, "in collaboaration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, on will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' the say, 'in there, of course.' There is consequently a phiatic hiatus."
C.S.Lewis, That Hidious Strength
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