Good point FlyGuy about the jargon and slang. I wonder what the roots of these things are. Maybe even an attempt to expedite our verbal expression since it is/was slower than our thought process?

On the flip side, I talk very fast at time and often people ask me to slow down. If we could process "faster" then shouldn't they be able to keep up? Or is their mind sort of programmed/stuck in a rut it dug over their living in a certain paced verbal experience?
If the latter, could one train themselves to understand speech at a faster rate? For example slowly increase a recording of speech as practice for understanding at higher rates. hmm.