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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Human speech has a fairly consistent information density. It's right about what the human brain can comfortably process.

Languages that sound fast and rapid fire have more sounds per information on average. So it's less that some cultures speak quickly and more that the speed of that language for normal human information exchange.