Vietnamese, for example, was one of the lowest-ranked languages for speed, but each syllable encoded a lot of information.

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Part of Wu’s success comes from swallowing the slightly longer commute, about 20 minutes by his reckoning, that comes with housing in the further-flung outskirts of the U-District. But Wu also clearly ...