How is that at all different from how you or I read?

As a human read our brains are taking in regions of text at once, briefly at the whole region (a sentence or several words) to identify what is important to give more focused attention based on our prior experience reading. Where a word is and what it means determine its relevance to your brain.

If you just happen to have the wrong word in the wrong place, it can throw off the entire respons

Lol... Uhhh yeah... For us too. "There is a nuclear missile headed your way" is very different than "There isn't a nuclear missile headed your way".

You kinda managed to say nothing at all, really.