From C.S. Lewis to Google Glass

That Hideous Strength:

 “The cardinal difficulty,” said MacPhee, “in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one 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?’ they say, ‘in there, of course.’ There is consequently a phatic hiatus.”  He pronounced this so as to rhyme with "get at us."

"There's your tea now," said Ivy Maggs, "and I’ll go and get you a piece of cake, which is more than you deserve. And when you've had it you can go upstairs and talk about nouns for the rest of the evening." 

"Not about nouns: by means of nouns," said MacPhee, but Mrs. Maggs had already left the room.

Google Glass Needs Phatic Interaction, Stat