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Cross―Gender Differences on Netspeak 　　Abstract 　　As everyone knows， language are invented by human beings and used by human beings. It is proved that human is the main part of language in the language creation and the language using history. Human being can be divided into two parts， male and female， and it is inevitable that language has the gender characteristic. Nowadays， information technology developed rapidly， because of its economical， efficient， user-friendly and convenient hallmarks， the Internet has irresistibly entered into almost every corner of people’s life. The result in linguistics is that a new language variety――netspeak， which was designed to meet the requirement of Computer-Mediated Communication （CMC） was created. Recent years， linguists and sociolinguists have paid increasing number of attention to netspeak. A large number of studies have been conducted on netspeak， but gender differences in netspeak have been hardly get concern because of the anonymity of CMC. In this article， I want to verify whether the previous studies findings on gender differences in face-to-face communication can be applied to describe and to explain the gender-related differences in netspeak or not， and I hope this article can be beneficial to the understanding of language and gender in CMC context. 　　Key words： Language； Gender difference； Netspeak； Male and female netizen； CMC 　　Wang， H. X.， Ji， D. C. （2014）. Cross-Gender Differences on Netspeak. Canadian Social Science， 10（3）， -0. Available from： http：///index.php/css/article/view/4575 　　DOI： http：///10.3968/4575 　　INTRODUCTION 　　The word “language” is offered several most frequently used senses by Webster’s New World Dictionary， we here only focus on its fundamental sense. Language is a mean of verbal communication. Language is a purposeful act and is instrumental in communicating by speaking or writing. Language is a social mark and communication can only take place effectively if all the users share a broa