[78-L] OT: Re: Playing reels backwards - separating myth from fact

[Kristjan Saag]

Iñigo (and other language freaks) - here's another game to play, using 
Google Translate.

1 Write a sentence in your own language in the left box - the dirtier 
the better, but "I love to play Bing Crosby's "Amor Amor" works well too
2 Google Translate will detect the language and automatically mark it as 
such
3 Now change the language tab to another language
4 Click the loudspeaker button to hear it pronounced

If you're too old for this (which I'm sure you aren't) your kids will 
enjoy it.
Kristjan


On 2016-02-08 09:23, Iñigo Cubillo wrote:
> Talking about that, it reminds the old experiments I used to do with 
> my old cassette player when child... I even got my father involved in 
> the issue... Reassembling cassette tapes upside-down I managed to play 
> them in reverse, by the opposite face, of course, with the unavoidable 
> lack of treble, but... anyway it worked. I had lots of laugh listening 
> to my favorites backwards... Of course, I used to do that with 78s 
> too, moving the turntable with the finger. One of my favorites was 
> Bing Crosby's "Amor Amor", which in reverse mode was a quiet strange 
> song ending in a sort of Bing's braying "Romaaa... Romaaaa... 
> Romaaa...". Very nice. But that's another story. The true thing with 
> the reversed tapes arrived when I started to record backwards, then 
> reassemble the tape in direct mode to hear the results... Nice...! The 
> next idea was to read a text backwards (strange business in which I 
> really got thoroughly trained) while recording backwards, then reverse 
> the tape and listen to the results... Heavy uncontrolled laughing 
> here...! And there I got my father involved... helping me to read 
> poems backwards, one chorus each one, in turn... Bursts into laughter 
> were unavoidable while reading backwards, which in reverse (direct 
> mode) sounded like barking dogs... No need to say that, apart from the 
> strange voices and vocalization, we sounded slow and clumsy... And 
> when you made a mistake, then corrected it... the result was that you 
> say it well first, then correct it to wrong...! ... I've played this 
> too with my children, few years ago. We used the old Windows Sound 
> Recorder that allowed reversing the WAV soundfiles, etc. They were 
> amazed and we had a great time singing songs in reverse, which we 
> learnt by heart. If you read it is easier... but if you learn by heart 
> and then repeat from memory, mistakes are more frequent, which is much 
> more funny. Imagine the difficulty tryin'g to learn a song in reverse, 
> melody included... Inigo, from Madrid, SPAIN 
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