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Isn't that a bit .. slow?
A single letter is 8 bits. I can think and speak out loud a whole sentence in just a second or two. Where did they come up with these numbers? In what world or system is a letter only 1 bit?
The human brain isn't binary so the choice to describe processing speed in terms of bits is bizarre.
Cn y ndrstnd this?
You probably can. Human language has built-in redundancy. You can drop parts and still be understood. That's useful for communicating in noisy environments or with people hard of hearing. So you could say that actual information content is less than 1 letter per letter, so to say.
Properly, information content is measured in bits. A more detailed analysis gives a value of about 1 bit per character.
Sidenote: You shouldn't ask technical or scientific questions in this community. I don't know why information theory denialism is so hot right now, but it obviously is.