Essentially, I'd say most peoples' brains are better at associative memory than they think they are. When you see a digraph like -> or ?: in C, do you think "h

Essentially, I'd say most peoples' brains are better at associative memory than they think they are. When you see a digraph like -> or ?: in C, do you think "hyphen greater-than" or "question-colon"? Your brain long ago learned to treat these as individual symbols, not strings of two characters. And this despite not even having easy-to-say names for them. (In Hoon they are "hepgar" and "wutcol" respectively.)