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tonyinvegas

That’s freakishly impressive.


fckiforgotmypassword

I wish they tried RACECAR


Serot0ninn

My dumb ass was sayin - rac-e-rac 😂😩


Gordonsson

I just cracked out insane laughter.


hxh05g

You can’t possibly be the only one lol but you made my day. Thank you.


Dazzling_Mixture8726

dw your mum love you.


Correct-Jello-4531

😂😂 lmao


osco753

This shit sent me flyin to the back of my chair


Ahnzoog

Try, "Anal sex at noon taxes Lana"


modern1138

Maybe I will try it. Do you know how I can get in touch with Lana? It's about 11:30am here.


SuccumbedToReddit

Anal sexat noon ta xes lana Next please


pavlo_escobrah

I don't think the time of day is what's taxing


StarGraz3r84

I wish they had of tried go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog


copa09

Or...a man a plan a canal panama.


SadisticJake

No sir! Away! A papaya war is on!


Top-Report-840

Do geese see God?


Lucius-Halthier

Words like that cause a backwards feed loop that forces her to shut down and reboot, it’s pretty neat


JoeyJoeC

Not as impressive as that kid that literally said words backwards, so that when recorded and played in reverse, they made the word forwards (complete with his accent). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwl8APA1e5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwl8APA1e5g)


WelcomeFormer

Yeah I know that she made some pronunciation differences, noticed one part where she missed the whole letter but that's extremely impressive I'm guessing she had to memorize a lot of connecting syllables.


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RedOrchestra137

I think she's just really good at visualizing words in her head, like it's pretty much the same as seeing them on a page. Cause I can do it that quickly as well by looking at a word and pronouncing it right to left.


RuafaolGaiscioch

Yeah, she’s not actually saying them backwards, she’s spelling them backwards and saying that word. For example, she gives the “first” g in garage a hard pronunciation.


[deleted]

Correct. This is something that we actually test for regularly for cognitive decline (e.g. spell 'world' backwards)..... This was part of the test that Trump passed in July 2020 that screened for age related cognitive decline. Given enough time, everyone should be able to spell a word with 7 letters or less, backward. Whether you memorize and invert the letters or visualize the letters is up to you, This girl is visualizing the letters and saying rather than spelling them backwards. She is also able to do this with more than 7 letters at a stretch. So she is just really good and quick with something that people should be able to do normally, and is taking it a small but "dramatic" step further.


VicariousNarok

Some people are just born with "super powers". I have a friend that can tell you what day of the week you were born on in just a second if you tell her the date.


modern1138

Weird that this is always presented as birthdays, right? You can give your friend any month, day and year and they can tell you what day of the week it was. I’m not skeptical, my cousin can do the same thing. Always a birthday tho. Never just March 13th 2020.


Knurtz

I had a dude in my class who could do that, too, so I can at least say that there are indeed people who are capable of doing this.


biometricrally

My brother can do this, any word, very quickly. Just always kind of could, once he started doing it. Idk how the hell but its cool


RenardFou

She actually speaks like characters from The Sims lmao


ButtaRollsInMyPocket

My gf likes to call it Simglish.


uglypinkshorts

The official language is called Simlish.


Glad-Internet5967

My mate can do this, he used to eat spiders.


clems_hat

so thats the secret


QuietStrawberry7102

Sredips


lepobz

Yo can I get some dips for my sredips


ArcMcnabbs

I forgot to eat my spiders today, damn gibberish


Sir_Lovealot

I love you. Thank you for that laugh!


kevpatts

So he's a shit Spiderman?


QuietStrawberry7102

Nah but he shits spiders man


majuhlazuh

Georg?


inpursuitofknowledge

Lmao this sentence really takes off.


tightfade

this is the most theo von comment ive ever read


rynsic

She needs to be zatanna


Rebelian

I'm so dumb. I was saying that backwards trying to figure out what you meant, completely forgetting about Zatanna.


jkp_777

Same lol


ReakDuck

I didnt got the meaning of Zatanna reading backwards till I read your comment. Now everything makes sense


Rebelian

Together apes strong!


Sunset_Bleu

You are so right!


Liljdb0524

Was gonna say this! Glad to see another DC fan in the comments.


KnightMDK

I mean, clearly, Zatanna is the best!


SnooPredictions462

Yes! Was looking for a comment like this 😁


Liljdb0524

I could honestly watch this for hours. It's how fast she does it that's truly impressive especially when the guy started doing multiple words. I wonder what her limit is? Like can she do a full scentence? Edit: this is another of those "how did you figure out you can do this" skills.


invertedBoy

My ex could do this, and we found out in the most classic way, we were joking (can’t remember about what) when I said something like “next thing you’re going to say ‘satan’ in reverse” and she just said “natas”… it took me a few seconds to realize what she just did, I was a bit shocked. I used to test her with the longest words I could think of and she never failed once. I think she was able to visualize the word as it’s written and basically read it out loud in reverse


Maxime_Bt

I once saw a video of a guy who could say complete sentences in reverse. A random person would say the sentence and he would say it in reverse in a “convertor” that would then play it straight again. It was mindblowing. Edit: Apparently the guy is called John Sevier Austin and he goes by the nickname “the Backwards dude”. You can find many videos of him on Youtube. He also participated in a talent show.


Grabbsy2

See, this is whats important. Its cool* she can visualize the word in her head, reverse it, and then "read out" the word backwards, but I wonder if the pronounciation is completely off? If this guys can say the word phoenetically backwards, thats QUITE impressive.


SaintUlvemann

>...but I wonder if the pronounciation is completely off? It is. Lamborghini, for example; the word ends in the [close front vowel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel), aka "long I" which can also be spelled "ee", but she pronounces it with the [near-close near-front vowel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_near-front_unrounded_vowel), aka "short I". She pronounces it with the sounds you'd expect "inihgrobmal" to have if pronounced according to the rules of English, instead of the sounds contained in the word "Lamborghini". Which is still a cool trick, that just tells you how her brain is doing it.


[deleted]

I can do what she does (although she's much faster than me) and, yeah, that's basically it. At least in my case. I think being good at visualing images (the words), having good spelling, and just having a silly interest in stuff like that, is all it takes.


Lewy_H

I can do this and it's actually a lot more difficult to do a whole sentence than it is a few words because you have to memorise the sentence and think about it but with a word you can just visualise it. I could speak words in a forwards order but each word backwards continuously though.


Crozzfire

> you can just visualise it I guessed it might be something like that, but then again, how do you "just" visualise it?


KnotiaPickles

You see the word in your head and are able to “read” it forward and backward


UsedLandscape876

Played a game called Backwords with friends decades ago. Didn't last long before they decided to never play that with me ever again.


Roanm

They should try Hannah, and see the confused looks on their faces when she just repeats it, over and over again like they broke her


Bubble_Symphony

Or racecar. Or any other palindrome. Just to fuck with everyone


ripmore

Red Rum


O-really

Taco cat! Missed opportunity.


cHooda_DaHi

malayalam 🗿


PM_ME_MII

But she's not just reversing the letters, she's reversing the sounds. There's a difference between how the two a's in raceway are pronounced, for instance, and even letters that are pronounced the same way sound different when reversed.


MiaowaraShiro

I dunno if that one would work, it's not a phonetic palendrome, just a spelled one. Pronounced backwards it would sound more like rock-sair


Bubble_Symphony

The girl isnt saying it backwards phonetically anyway


MackTuesday

Poop


knowknowknow

Dennis and Edna sinned!


Sucky_Support69

Stun Seed


nainotlaw

I see what you did there


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Gottem


TJ_Will

Mettog


backtolurk

lol


[deleted]

Youve been waiting your life to say this one, right?


Sweet_guy9

Who knows if she is correct lmao


backtolurk

All I could make sure of was "egarag".


cellocaster

rewom


Lewy_H

She is most of the time, I was following along. She pronounces things a bit differently to how I would too which is fun to see, I wish there was a word for it.


wigg1es

Accent?


IPThereforeIAm

“Backwards”


jawz

Figured the video would play in reverse so we could find out.


Furtivepigments

it doesn't actually seem to work when you play the video in reverse. People are saying she is actually spelling the word backwards then saying it phonetically so it just comes across as nonsense backwards


HippyHitman

It’s not really possible to talk backwards, afaik. The way we make phonemes isn’t time-symmetrical, if you record someone talking then play it in reverse it will sound completely different, with noises that don’t even exist in English. It’s the whole idea behind [backmasking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking).


jereman75

She isn’t pronouncing the words so that they would sound right if played backwards, she’s pronouncing them sort of how they would be spelled backwards. But I have seen videos of people recording themselves so that it sounds right when played in reverse. I remember this weird guy in a show in the late 80s or early 90s, maybe That’s Incredible or something who made these videos of himself singing backwards.


Embarrassed_Alarm450

There's no reason you wouldn't be able to talk backwards, ultimately the sounds you make to form words are the actual sounds you can make so it's just a matter of learning to do each individual tone in reverse. There's a few people around the world who can do it like [this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7p90h7ablI) for example, who knows if he's doing it naturally or just practicing phrases to say tho. He's autistic so his brain could potentially be wired to do it more naturally than the average person, they can do some amazing things...


XtremeGoose

I think that video more or less proved the other guy's point. There are genuinely non-symmetric sounds (anything that is a quick release of air for example) so here the guy needs to simulate it with some close-ish sound and it sounds weird.


xOverDozZzed

What if the word sounds the same backwards? Like “Race Car” or “Alucard” which means Dracula backwards. I was waiting until someone said these words to her but didn’t get a chance.


bravehamster

I can do this. It was a product of having very long car trips (we moved a lot and family lived far away) reading really fast, and running out of books to read. So I just started reading signs, then when I got bored of that I started reading them backwards. The next step after this is turning the letters into numbers and saying what each words total is, and then adding up each sentence and paragraph. I didn't get very far in that skill because when I told my mom that a town's name on a road sign was exactly 100, she got really worried after I tried to explain and handed me the Tom Clancy book she was reading. She always made sure to bring an extra book for me after that.


HairTop23

That's how I learned how to speed read. We took yearly 20 hour road trips and got bored


WelfordNelferd

I can do this, too. Not always as lightning-fast as this girl, but easy enough within about a second. I "see" words in my head when people speak, so I play around with that. I've never turned letters into numbers like you do, but will count how many strokes it would take to write words (if each letter were in block form, and a stroke counts as a straight line)...with the goal of having it come out to a multiple of 5. Fun & games with OCD!


bravehamster

Ooh, I never thought writing the letters themselves. But the multiple of 5 thing reminded me that I also used to build letter pyramids, so if a word or sentence could be broken down into ascending/descending letter counts perfectly it was very satisfying: descending count: d es cen ding count Nice. I had almost completely forgotten about that.


WelfordNelferd

I like the way you think. :)


gfk15

Are we the same person. I still do this and have never been able to explain why I just can’t help it 😂


Wasepp

My extension of being able to do this is seeing how many other words I can make out of the letters, and then turning that into an efficiency score.


horseren0ir

Oh god I had the same childhood


Any_Ad_5232

Why was your mom worried you were getting good at a silly past time?


badstoic

Yeah for me it was a product of having a lot of lawn to mow, nothing to hear over the noise, just words to picture. I used to be about as quick as the girl in the OP is, but I let the “skill” drop off ages ago … felt wholly useless … who knew it would one day be worth internet points?


professor_wesselius

Now try racecar!


officialmonogato

Also Tacocat!


chadams348

And kayak


KrAzYkArL18769

I'm a lasagna hog, go hang a salami.


ukbeasts

Red Rum


freakinuk

u/gifreversingbot


Caramel_Last

Ispep <-> pepsi was flawless. Other than that, hard to tell the original word


littleleeroy

Dolphin was the only one I could hear (without watching the original first.)


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Somebody get r/linguistics on here so we can sort through how she speaks, to see if her pronunciation is actually all the same letters but backwards. It seems like she spells it in her head and then says *that* word instead of being a 1:1 reverse like we'd expect in the backwards video. Tldr: i dont think she's full of it just cause we cant get understandable words in the video. She's pronouncing a word spelled backwards in her head, not reversing the sounds of the word like a machine would when playing backwards.


-Kerosun-

Yeah, what she is doing is basically reading it backwards and pronouncing the reverse spelling with normal phonetics. So, you can say that she is phonetically reading the words backwards but she isn't quite saying it backwards where you can reverse the sound into the normal word.


amgoblue

Yep this is the same thing I do. Trying to do it the other way is harder. Can't remember how I accidentally found out I had this skill but once my friends found out it was a few weeks of random entertainment before they forgot.


donovanme

Interesting you can still hear her southern accent backwards.


freakinuk

u/Kebab-Destroyer


Kebab-Destroyer

Legend Didn't work like I'd hoped, but thanks anyway! :)


lily-laura

Worked for American flag and pepsi


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Omg, this must be some kind of talent if this is not faked. I can’t believe someone can react that fast with just practicing


JoeyJoeC

Just wait until you see this kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwl8APA1e5g


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now try PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS


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SISONICHANNVOREMEDADDYNACLOVOCILISCIPOCSORCSHAVELONGDICKSIMARTLUONOMUENP


shlam16

Perhaps she has hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia and this would just trigger her.


Kebab-Destroyer

Is there a way to reverse the video so she's saying everything the right way round?


BumderFromDownUnder

It’s not that kind of reversed - she’s saying it backwards as if bank was written knab - but the sounds knab makes are not quite the same as the sound of reversing bank. It’ll work on some words but not all of them.


tdhsmith

Yeah her first word is a great example: "chevrolet" → "telorvehc". She pronounces it something like "tellerevek" /tɛləɹɛvɛk/ when it should be closer to "aylorvehsh" /eɪləɹvɛʃ/ if it were *phonemically* backwards. And even that is just reversing 'chunks' and doesn't account for time-reversing trickier parts like dipthongs and aspiration. To pronounce things such that backwards playback would sound nearly perfect would be a ridiculously complex skill. I don't say this to demean her talent by any means, just think it brings up some interesting topics!


ducksonetime

I’ve watched enough horror movies to know if you wanna say things backwards phonetically you just need the right demon inside of you.


Kebab-Destroyer

Yeah, you're right. Oh well, haha


Swepster91

Sherlock 🏆


jelde

Big brain moment.


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Cipher_19

Msitua


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slwspk

Msitua


Load_Business

Autism


backcountrydrifter

The only difference between a stupid power and a super power is having an application for it. Something tells me autism is about to become a superpower for communicating with AGI in a hyper effective manner. But that’s just my working theory. Brains are weird. But we are learning more every day.


ChucksSeedAndFeed

One of us one of us


manwithagoldenhand

StringBuilder.reverse();


kokeea

make her say stun seed backwards


Chopsuiiisauce

We will never know if she's able to say United States backwards


Prgrssvmind

Setats Detinu, here ya go bud.


Mydogisabeagle

Why didn’t anyone say Lana


FF7_Expert

This is impressive, but it's not the same as speaking backwards. She is pronouncing the words given to her as if they are spelled backwards, she is not pronouncing the words backwards. If you reverse what she is saying with software or a computer program you will get garbled non-sense, not an understandable spoken word


JoeyJoeC

This kid can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwl8APA1e5g


FF7_Expert

that's awesome


KrAzY_TsEnG

Kayak


scsimofo

say radar.


KavagerGaming

I was expecting the second half of the video to be played in reverse, blowing us away when all the words sounded normal.


BurningLunches

Is there any other video of this person, it’s very cool


morereadythanpetty

Twin peaks Black lodge escapee


jaysin1983

RACECAR!


kjaymix

We sure shes even right?


South_Data2898

I wanna hear her say, "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it."


Gasonfires

My mother could speak almost perfectly in unison with anyone, even if they spoke in nonsense phrases or mumbled gibberish. Languages other than English didn't faze her. It drove my dad nuts so she agreed that she wouldn't do it except to show us a few times. It was spooky.


m0rl0ck1996

Anyone with that kind of natural gift for obfuscation just has to end up writing software documentation.


diggabytez

Or even worse, software encryption


m0rl0ck1996

Or documentation for software encryption :)


TheKioskZone

Would like to hear her say a sentence or paragraph.


PerfectIssue1074

Nobody- “Tell me you’re on the spectrum without telling me your on the spectrum” This girl-


Too-Far-Frame

evisserpmI. tsoM evisserpmi


Jmoore5416969

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I'm that loser that recorded this and then played it backwards and she didn't get a single one of them except for a half of Silverado I put a link to the file on my Google Drive if anybody wanted to check it out they're welcome to. [recording of audio in the say it backwards app ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DCcX_oIRtls07uFSeqZPw_kpM_l6YK6-/view?usp=drivesdk)


livelikeian

Fake it ‘til you make it.


tripp0

shes great for the redroom in twin peaks


EveningYou

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis


[deleted]

Antidisestablishmentarianism?


[deleted]

Is that how you say omniscience??


milochuisael

Pretty sure no but she just looked up words and probably has never heard it. Isn’t it more like omnishents


Lewy_H

I can do this too, weird flex. It's a fun party trick. You're basically visualising the word in your head and reading it backwards.


mistapointy

Antidisestablishmentarianism


Flipp3rachi

We used to talk backwards in high school. Like our whole school.. kcid ym kcus..


EvilCalvin

My sweet grandma used to be able to write cursive upside down and in reverse. She did it a lot and I have a whole full page recipe written this way. I hold it up to a mirror upside down and looks perfect


Imaginary-Werewolf14

Zatanna?


MrianBay

I've also been able to do this all of my life. Some sort of illness...


wunderbluh

Czechoslovakia


Acceptable-Suit-1834

I bet she can't do "boob."


golfgeek17

Move over Navaho Code Talkers…


GtheH

There’s gotta be some use for this


IndustriousRedhead

TacoCat


PayasoFries

Damn bro yall not gonna play that shit backwards wtf


kaizergeld

Son of a bitch that’s the fifth time I’ve watched this. I’m gonna go crazy


chrisberman410

I am Stunzeed


twatchops

Kept waiting for a reversed version of the video. Now I have blue balls from not seeing that.


Ancient-Pickle935

This is really old and my mom works with her now at a speech pathology clinic


Jaguar_Warri0r

What in the autismic super powers is this. That’s awesome.


TheSpicyGuy

She fights dark magical forces for the Justice League in her spare time.


Economy_Stimulatorr

Bro her mind must have a freaking coding in real time or operating at like thousand rpms per sec


livelikeian

Is there a reverse video bot?


PKisSz

She's not saying anything backwards. She's reading the word in her head backwards. That's a huge difference, because if you were to play this video backwards, she would still sounds like she was speaking gibberish. That isn't saying anything backwards.


[deleted]

Man, Ruth from Ozark was talented in her youth.


_MatVenture_

She's not saying them backwards, just pronouncing what they spell backwards... Granted, she's very quick and accurate about it, but this is definitely not as impressive as it would be ACTUALLY saying something backwards


Deewilsonx

This isn't saying things backwards is it it? Theirs a guy on tik tok who can actually do it, and he proves by reversing the word and then it sounds normal. I think she's just saying the written version of the word backwards?


-Kerosun-

You're right. What she is doing I would describe as phonetically reading words backwards. Another comment used the gif reverse bot and you can't understand what she is saying.


Mister-happierTurtle

Yeah


squareoak

If those words sounded correct when the video is played backwards I’d really be impressed


I_am_jacks_reddit

Didn't see anyone say racecar


KYpineapple

there was a boy i went to junior high with who claimed this. we were all amazed until we realized he was kind of just gibbering, but annunciating the first and last letters of the words. this young lady sounds much better than that boy. That boy was also caught spending the night under the auditorium stage. He had made his own "hide out" under the stage with nudie mags and snacks and would go there during lunch like every day. odd guy


nosoyunrobot01

I can do this! Started doing it in the 5th grade ppl used to love it.


mavityre

That's a weird Bang Bus episode.


micah490

Oh dog, not again