This is true. Vietnamese is tonal and mostly monosyllabic, for example. But it turns out that people tend to speak very information dense languages like this mo

This is true. Vietnamese is tonal and mostly monosyllabic, for example. But it turns out that people tend to speak very information dense languages like this more slowly, so the overall information density is similar among languages. Maybe humans can only process information so fast? http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091477,00.html http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091477,0...