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It's fascinating that while languages vary wildly by speaking speed, information transfer is fairly similar. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So if I'm reading this right, French (closely followed by English) tends to convey the most info per unit time?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but they also utilize smell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As a french, I'm very surprised by this, as when I see a text in French side-by-side with its English translation, the English version is usually shorter. It may be a difference between speech and text, but it's still surprising.

I really thought the information density of French was pretty low, compared to English or Breton, for example.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Written French is slow (needs more words )

Spoken French IS faster

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's due to English spelling vs French spelling. The latter uses a lot of letters to make a sound that could be recognized with simplified spelling. O = eaux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think i read a study long ago, about the speed of transmiting information being faster in languagues of great empires. Sounds logical to me and matches English, French, Chinese.