random thought of the day…

On a whim starting reading websites about reading speed and speed reading
and what not. The general consensus seems to be that reading speed
is limited by “sub vocalization”. Aka, peoples tendency to “hear”
the words as they read them.

So the thought is, does this apply to purely visual languages?
Ie, languages that are not a graphical way to represent spoken
language.

The first example that comes to mind is American Sign Language.
But of course, the rate at which it can be “spoken” is limited.

But it seems like you could abstract it some, and do a purely
visual language based on it that could be “spoken” very fast.
Since there wouldnt be a vocal part of the language to “hear”,
it might be possible to read it at a very high rate.

No idea if that would actually work or not…