[godelski]

> esp. in spontaneous spoken language, then the information rate should be about the same.

This is entirely non-intuitive to me. I would think with language evolving that some would be faster than others. If language starts as conveying extremely simple thoughts then it should take longer to convey certain things. I would then assume that as the language develops it gets better at conveying ideas. I would think that thoughts could go much faster than how we process it with language. Like I have constant thoughts that are really fast and can be complex. There's no internal dialogue there. But when I think with an internal dialogue it is much slower.