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		People Speak Faster in Less Efficient Languages (2019) (theatlantic.com)
		2 points by grzm on Oct 12, 2023 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

kelthan on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

The result is that the maximum rate of verbal information transfer in most any language is roughly the same.

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