Dane Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 22:51, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Or perhaps I should say: >> > >> > .snoitnevnoc >> > hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM >> > ton ,puorgswen egaugnal hsilgnE na no er'ew ,segaugnal hcus >> > era ereht fi neve tuB >> >> First I thought it was Welsh or Cornish or something. >> >> Then it was like being in my first year of school again- >> reading letter by letter. Never realised how difficult it is. >> >> I suppose it will improve with practice. > > Not to steer this topic even futher off topic, but this is > something that's been on my mind lately... > > The biggest problem with it that the letters were forwards and > not also backwards (and the parens). But then, it's my > understanding that as a left-handed person, reading and writing > backwards is far easier for me than for the majority that is > right-handed. Have any other lefties found that the case? How would anybody know? As a left-hander, I have found it easy enough to read backwards, but then, being left-handed forces a certain habit of adaptability in any case. Maybe that makes it easier to read backward, but that is not a task I'm often called on to do. It takes practice regardless. This subthread reminds me of my *highly secure* plaintext encryption system that would render the sentence <But even if there are such languages, we're on an English language newsgroup, not Martian, and so we should (whenever possibly) adapt English conventions> as <Sno itne vn ochsi lgn etpa daylbisso, pr'ev en eh Wdluohs ewosdnan aitramton, puo Rgswene, gau gn al hsilgn (enanoere wsegaugn) alhcu Seraere htfinevetub> I think it looks vaguely Esperantonic (Esperantoid? Esperantic?), if anything. -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
