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Most people can in English. Funny enough- few people save the barely or newly literate actually “read.” That’s why unfamiliar words or phrasings often require more than one pass to comprehend- or how those “tricks” work where multiple conjunctions such as “and and” are snuck in without notice- or two innocuous words after another appear on first reading to be different but similar words.

People who are proficient in English reading seldom actually read a word- a sentence even. Instead we “scan” things- we recognize the general “shape” of words, first letter, last letter, first word, last word, so on. We infer what logically by rules of language and context comes between based on familiarity. When numbers or other symbols are transposed for letters that are close in appearance it doesn’t terribly effect our ability to read because the overall “picture” of the words is close enough and context can fill in gaps without having to decipher.

Interestingly enough things like fonts, stylization and logos- all are relatively easily read by proficient readers of a language- but a foreign reader or non proficient reader may have trouble understanding because they lack the familiarity with that written language to identify words and letters or characters intuitively- and as such have trouble drawing context on the proposed meaning or common phrases and grammar construction.