WORDS BACKWARDS SOFTWARE

WORDS BACKWARDS SOFTWARE

Then anybody with any Web browser - even Lynx - can download and play it, assuming they have the right software installed (which they probably do). The RSS version of your post already does this. January 30, 9:26 just give a link to the downloadable audio file. No matter what kind of reverse-aspiration or reverse-affrication I try to give them, I can't make them sound convincing when played backwards. I'm pretty good at (real phonetic) backwards speech, but the one thing that I can't master is voiceless/fortis plosives. I would have developed this skill, but my mom always admonished me, 'No backtalk!' I wonder what she would do with 'Rats live on no evil star.' It was remarkable! It's just amazing what smart people get up to when they are boredвЂ¦ You could say (or read off to her) an entire paragraph, then she'd reverse the spellings and go right back from the end to the beginning. I knew a girl in High School who did exactly this trickвЂ“but it was really just something she developed to play with her pure photographic memory. But a wish that you would use one of the many other ways to play sounds rather than Flash, which is not available on IOS and which even on other systems many people refuse to use. Not a comment about this article, which is great. Sounds like a new Professor Backwards is on the scene. Filed by Mark Liberman under Orthography, Phonetics and phonology.Her facility in doing this is remarkable. If we were actually to reverse the pronunciation she was given, again using the Reverse effect in Audacity, we'd get:ДЄnd if we were to reverse the surface phonemic sequence we'd get something like, or maybeВ if you believe that the final affricate should be treated as a unit (a sensible view that the powers-that-be in the IPA have apparently never been able to acceptвЂ¦).Д«ut what Alyssa is doing, clearly, is thinking of the spelling, reversing the spelling in her mind's eye, and then pronouncing the string that results. This is a plausible way to pronounce the English letter sequenceД«ut it turnsВ the 'silent e' into the main stressed vowel of the word, pronounces the immediately preceding 'g' as rather than or, etc. Thus her reversed version of 'garage' (pronounced to her as ) is : You can see the difference most clearly with the words that end in 'silent e'.

She's reversing the order of the letters in the standard English spelling of the word, and then saying something that represents how she thinks that letter sequence might be pronounced. Your browser does not support the audio element.ДЄndВ what Alyssa is doing is something else again. Instead, the forward and backward versions would sound something like this (audio taken from the Merriam-Webster Online pronunciation of 'clip', and reversed using the 'Reverse' effect in Audacity): Д«ut in fact, reversing the symbols is not at all the same thing as reversing the signal, and so a genuinely reverse-time version of 'clip' would not sound anything like 'pilk'. Thus 'clip' would come out as 'pilk', or 'make' would come out as. There was a viral video on Youtube a couple of years ago that demonstrated this skill in a very striking way (' Reverse English', ).ДЄnother possible meaning for 'talking backwards' would be pronouncing the surface phonemic segments of a word or phrase in reverse order. Ian Catford wasВ especially good at talking backwards in this sense.В He practiced by playing audio tapes backwards - and demonstrated the correctness of his performances in the same way. That is, your vocalization would be a good imitation of a time-reversed version of some normal utterance X. You might produce a vocalization BACKWARDS(X) which, when played backwards, would sound like X. There are several different things that 'talking backwards' might mean.

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