actual_patience

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychopathy is a popular catch-all term. “Low-empathy” is better, but I think you’re just a critical person and most people don’t like criticism or self-reflection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there’s a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower.

  This is true.

  Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.

  I don’t think that’s the right interpretation. There are words in English that would require sentences to be made for each if conveyed in a different language. But the same is true vice-versa.

  Have a look at subtitles for movies from one language to any other. Translators struggle conveying what should be paragraph long sentences of context behind a single word for one language. Do not get me started on double speak.