esrever gnidaer ro gnitirw

:lol: Okay, before anyone asks or even thinks it (!) I haven't lost the plot and suddenly flipped in terms of my sanity so no need to call the guys with the white jackets as yet :lol:

At work today, I was fedup waiting for one file to close and another to open :roll: :roll: and I started to doddle as one does, and I started to try and write my name in reverse :shock: :lol:

(I had drawn enough stick people whilst waiting for files to open - to do with the applications we use, not the computer spec or Windows so was bored doing that :| :lol: )

Have you ever tried this? :lol:

esrever gnidaer ro gnitirw

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= reverse reading or writing :raisebro: :lol:

Um. Pacion? Yes, you have finally flipped your wig. I've seen it coming for a while now. Sad, really ... :wink: :lol:

And does reverse speaking or upside down reading count. For a couple years when I was little, my siblings called me Refinnej -- Jennifer, my first name, backward.

And of course I read upside down!! How else is one to find out all sorts of info one shouldn't? :raisebro:

rotfl! Okay, upside down writing I haven't attempted as yet :lol: I think I will have to work out how to write the alphabet upside down first :lol:

(for my friends :wink: the writing itself has to be upside down, not me (!) to be upside down and writing )

Reading, yes, but I haven't tried writing. Writing backwards is a skill learned by "scope dopes", military radar operators who would stand behind those transparent plot boards writing target information backwards so that the brass on the other side could read it -- you've seen it lots of times in Navy war movies. I was never a scope dope, but we computer repair students were in the same school squadron as they were at Keesler (so then, yes Temptress, I know what Biloxi in December was like, though it doesn't compare with my next station, North Dakota).

However, as computer programmer I very quickly learned the skill of reading a printout from any angle, since you can rarely be guaranteed the right-side-up spot in the crowd surrounding the printout or schematic.

BTW, the way that we discovered that our first son had started to read at 3 was at Disneyland under the Skyway station (no longer there) in Tomorrowland. He asked us what "No Step" meant, so we looked up and saw it through the fiberglass roof above us. He had read it both upside-down and backwards.

Later, my wife read that being able to read and write backwards are signs of high intelligence. Just thought you might like hearing that, Pacion.

Pacion said:

esrever gnidaer ro gnitirw

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= reverse reading or writing :raisebro: :lol:

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Oh dear, I messed up and got it wrong. I read it as "writing or reading reverse". Guess I went full reverse instead of only half reverse. I really must try to learn moderation!

?od ot ew are tahw ,lleW

DWise1 said:

?od ot ew are tahw ,lleW

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!esruoc fo ot tnaw ew revetahW

SDsalsaguy said:

DWise1 said:

?od ot ew are tahw ,lleW

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!esruoc fo ot tnaw ew revetahW

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I agree, naturally.

ecin eno!

squirrel said:

ecin eno!

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Don't you mean:

!eno eciN

:?:



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I can read text that's either upside down or reversed. :shock:

I'm too busy reading & writing Chinese characters backwards(the Japanese language!) to write any ENGLISH backwards! :shock:

I had another go today and I hardly had to pause, to think about how I should write the letter :shock: :nope: I am wondering whether I should start worrying :lol:

No - just time to work on your Spanish. Didn't you mention you are taking up Spanish?

pygmalion said:

And does reverse speaking or upside down reading count. For a couple years when I was little, my siblings called me Refinnej -- Jennifer, my first name, backward.

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Me too! My sister and I used to call each other Tegdirb and and Eilatan and always used to experiment with reading and writing backwards as kids. (Hey, we lived in the country, before the days of Internet and Playstation, so we did nerdy stuff like that to amuse ourselves, okay?!).

Haven't done it for ages now ... except there was this one time a couple of years ago at a presentation at the international school I used to work at, where the school president was demonstrating how people overcome the unfamiliar, and he used backwards writing on all his Powerpoint slides as an example. It was very telling to note different audience members' reactions - some people (like me) just shrugged and adapted, while others went "What's this happy crappy?!" or "I can't understand a thing and I'm not even gonna try!"

tnemirepxe gnitseretin na etiuq saw ti...

SDsalsaguy said:

squirrel said:

ecin eno!

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Don't you mean:

!eno eciN

:?:



:wink:

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:lol: :lol:

?nainamoR ni sti ebyaM

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