Two loosely related things...

[conuly]

1. If you're not reading gpf_comic_jk, you should remedy the situation immediately.
2. A while back, I set myself to reading all the back comics. One storyline had them going through time. At one point, one of the characters suffers... a bit of a mishap.

Now, what's really interesting is that despite the fact that I consciously knew he was talking backwards, I couldn't read the words backwards. I couldn't even see them backwards unless I took the effort. Every time I saw his text, I read it forwards, then had to stop and say "no, wait, he's talking backwards" and translate this like it.

I have one question about this. Why?

Oh, and read gpf_comic_jk.

Comments

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

oddly enough, I had to read the comic you linked to three times before I realized what you were talking about. somehow my mind saw the words in reverse order, recognized that they were in reverse order, and interpreted the sentence correctly without my noticing.

twice.

Speaking of talking backwards -

[pne.livejournal.com]

Dream a but is life,
Merrily, merrily, merrily;
Merrily stream the down gently,
Boat your row, row, row.

(Sung to the tune of, guess what.)

I learned it like that once, from my then-girlfriend, for fun.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

oddly enough, I had to read the comic you linked to three times before I realized what you were talking about. somehow my mind saw the words in reverse order, recognized that they were in reverse order, and interpreted the sentence correctly without my noticing.

twice.

Speaking of talking backwards -

[pne.livejournal.com]

Dream a but is life,
Merrily, merrily, merrily;
Merrily stream the down gently,
Boat your row, row, row.

(Sung to the tune of, guess what.)

I learned it like that once, from my then-girlfriend, for fun.