Wasn't there recently an article about bits of information per second, that all languages more or less are delivering the same information(tone differences, str

Wasn't there recently an article about bits of information per second, that all languages more or less are delivering the same information(tone differences, stress and other audial information also delivers information): https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second https://www.science.org/content/article/human-speech-may-hav... Given the fact that Chinese writing is used for communication for various people, that each have their own language, the main component in learning Chinese is not about learning language - how to pronounce words, but what these characters mean - universally in all those languages - even English or Spanish people might communicate with Chinese if they knew meanings of Chinese "writing". This is big advantage when various people have to live together in one country, but the main disadvantage over alphabetic writing is that it is not easy to mass educate people to learn thousands of graphical representations and combinations of those "writings", than to learn 20-40 alphabetic letters, that(more or less) are related to sounds. IMO, English is worst alphabetical language, and it is standing out, as it has not modernized it's alphabet(like rest of Europeans did 100-200 years ago) and most people learn English not from what they can read(it does not help, that various 20+ Brittish dialects can pronounce words differently), but binding to memory what is written - almost the same way how Chinese do. From my experience, there is staggering amount of written illiteracy among native British people, that I have never seen compared to other Europeans. Because of this experience, my English has become worse(some of the mistakes can not be blamed on keyboard), that what it used to be - also I don't care about errors anymore, because I have adapted to locals. PS I think, that knowing different languages is like being different human. There are some languages, that makes you act very stressful and fast talking, and then there are some languages that are slower and where you can think before saying something. There is also difference between how jokes are present.