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Talking backwards

Post 21

Gnomon - time to move on

I remember it in colour because that's the only way I ever saw it. I've never seen a repeat of any Doctor Who.


Talking backwards

Post 22

Baryonic Being - save GuideML out of a word-processor: A7720562

I believe in French youth culture there is also a custom of reversing just the syllables of a word, i.e.

'The Er'shikehitch Guide to the Ylaxga.'

Apple becomes Pull-ah, address becomes dress-ah and so on.


Talking backwards

Post 23

The Groob

Also, it must be said that some backward dialogue was featured in the Red Dwarf episode 'Backwards'. If you bothered to record it and play it backwards (er, forwards) it said something along the lines of "I bet some idiot records this and plays it backwards to hear what it says".


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