[necovek]

I believe there is a point: we simulataneously ingest words, but also glyph shapes and learn acceptable variations between them (eg. serif vs non-serif, large x-height vs small, curlier or more elegant, playful letters...) — all of these contribute to our multi-faceted learning, but ultimately, we do seem to need less of the data to learn (how long it takes for us to learn to recognize letters vs OCR based on ML).