Yes, our brains automate and shortcut things. Your drive into work, repetitive tasks, etc. reading. Believe it or not it recognizes patterns, word lengths, recognized patterns of speech. It's also the reason you can speed read. Your mind is actually not spelling out each word anymore like you did in 2nd grade.
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