Humans have a very strong tendency (and have made tremendous collective efforts) to compress context. I'm not a neuroscientist but I believe it's called "chunk.

Humans have a very strong tendency (and have made tremendous collective efforts) to compress context. I'm not a neuroscientist but I believe it's called "chunk." Language itself is a highly compressed form of compressed context. Like when you read "hoist with one's own petard" you don't just think about literal petard but the context behind this phrase.