Monday, November 11, 2013

Meet the 10-year-old boy who can talk backwards fluently - and he doesn't even break a sweat when transposing 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'


Turned around: 10-year-old Cameron from Scotland has picked up the talent of being able to speak backwards

A 10-year-old Scottish boy showed off his talent for speaking backwards in a video posted by his dad on YouTube
In the five-minute clip, Cameron's dad gives him sentences to say backwards.
Cameron uses an iPad app that reverses speech to demonstrate his talent.

The app transposes regular speech into backwards speech, but since Cameron is already speaking backwards to begin with the sentences come out understandable when played through the app.
He starts off with the simple sentence of 'My name is Cameron and I live in Scotland' before his dad starts slinging more complex sentences at him like 'I went outside to play on my bike today' and 'I'm going to Canada for my summer holidays'.
He can also count from one to 20 backwards.
For the grand finale, he says the title of Mary Poppins sons 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' which many people have a hard time pronouncing forwards. 

Tech speech: To demonstrate his talent, Cameron uses an app which plays speech backwards. But since he's talking backwards to begin with, it becomes understandable when played through the app 
However, some on the site are not impressed by Cameron and express their belief that the video is a sham.
'This would be easy to memorize with time. I would like to see him do this publicly for proof,' one user wrote. 
    But Cameron isn't even the first young person to come forward with the ability to speak backwards.
    In February 2012, teenager Alyssa Kramer made her own video on YouTube where friends would give her words and she would say them backwards within three seconds. 

    Tongue-twister: Teen Alyssa Kramer can also speak backwards and says she learned the talent when she first started learning to readTongue-twister: Teen Alyssa Kramer can also speak backwards and says she learned the talent when she first started learning to read

    After being viewed more than a million times online, Alyssa was featured on The Today Show where she further proved her talent.
    According to Alyssa, she picked up the talent when she first started reading and it's all about visualizing the words backwards.
    'Someone will say the word and then my brain will flip it for me and I'll just read it that way,' she said. 

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