wow...

Hmm...


Get a job hippy!


Seriously, j/k. That must've taken a lot of free time to get right. I can only imagine what he does as a day-job.

fantastical, i loved it!

I have so many questions about this! Was he playing the karaoke version backwards to sing along with? Does his normal, forwards voice have such a distinct accent?

In either Le Ton Beau De Marot or Metamagical Themas, Douglas Hofstadter writes at length about his efforts when he was younger to learn to speak reverse English fluently and without an accent. To be sure, there are certain sounds that are impossible to replicate naturally, but if I recall correctly he wrote that with much practice, he was able to get the accent correct for a lot of words/phrases, etc.

Thinking more about it, I'm almost certain that it was in Le Ton Beau de Marot, because he gets pretty heavily into accents for a few chapters. What does a person speaking german with a french accent sound like? What does a person speaking Italian with a Japanese accent sound like? Etc.

Great clip.

Oh yes, that leads to another question as well- would a person with say a Dutch accent, speaking English backwards have a different accent than say the same passage said by a native french speaker?

Very interesting questions, i think.

I love how his accent comes through even backwards. Very cool.

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awesome !

he sings it better backwards than I could forwards

I like it and its a job very well done, but I don't know if I would call it awe-inspiring.

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