Reading upside down

[ecstatic]

I am able to understand the following with ease, but was shocked to learn that some people can't read it:

¡ɐɯɐqo ʞɔɐɹɐq ǝʌoן ı

What does it mean when someone can't read upside down?

[amdezurik]

1. I learned out of curiosity

just takes a bit of effort and practice :)

[Sequoia]

2. I did that once and this woman was very shocked I could read upside down.

Then I said, I can read it upside down in a mirror too.

[SoCalDem]

3. you're not a parent?

:rofl:

[proud patriot]

5. LOL

exactly

[SoCalDem]

6. or a teacher

:)

[proud patriot]

26. or in my case both

:)

[WolverineDG]

4. Just never took the time or

had the opportunity to learn? :shrug: I taught myself to read upside down & backwards (mirror) just because I was bored. The real trick is to be able to do it without the other person suspecting you're doing it.

dg

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. I have no problem reading it but have no idea how you

typed it.

[ecstatic]

10. hehe

http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html

I was trying to be cute and send upside down emails... but it fell flat when hardly anyone could read it. :rofl:

[DonEBrook]

23. Thanks to you I manged another day learning at least one thing!

:D :toast: :thumbsup:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

25. And I was thinking you had fipped your keyboard around or something

very cool. I'm going to have fun with this.:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[proud patriot]

27. aha !

I think I may try that ..:think:

[Bucky]

8. You're a walrus? How the fuck did you become a walrus?

And who is this Raul character you've supposedly buried?

[TahitiNut]

9. As a former corporate internal auditor, it comes naturally to me.

I've even heard of it being used in interviews. :evilgrin:

[Drunken Irishman]

11. It wasn't hard to read at all. Weird.

[rvablue]

12. OK, I'll bite...I'm obviously an idiot. I can't read this. What does it say?

reading upside down "lobob!" with a bunch of squares in between.

Uh...thought I was always kinda bright........:cry: :dunce:

[SoCalDem]

14. a font your computer does not recognize, maybe?

Here's a picture of the post.. I bet you can read it now:)

[rvablue]

18. OK, I feel much better now...it was the font

all of the responses were so matter-of-fact, "Oh yeah, sure I can read it."

I had a little crisis there for a sec! :yoiks:

[Celebration]

13. It's a snap for me!

But, I can do mirror writing (cursive!!). Just tell me something and I can write it completely so that you can't read it, except in a mirror, or if you turn the piece of paper over and hold it up to the light.

Little trick I only had to practice a little bit.

[MineralMan]

28. I taught myself mirror writing as an experiment

in high school. I'm left handed, so I decided to try writing mirror images with my right hand. It wasn't all that difficult.

Haven't done it for years, though.

[SharonAnn]

32. I learned to mirror-write for fun, too, but I did it with my right (usual) hand.

I'm not sure if I can still do it.

[MineralMan]

33. We must have been really bored,

huh? High school...

[surrealAmerican]

35. I did the same thing, although I'm right handed.

People stopped asking to borrow my notes.

[Celebration]

37. yeah, us mirror writers might need a special DU group n/g

[madmom]

15. I had no problem reading it.

[Speck Tater]

16. I taught myself to read and write upside down and mirror image in fourth grade.

I don't know why. I just seemed like something fun to do.

[Celebration]

38. yeah, it is fun

Why write the regular way when you can turn it all around?

Sheesh, I got so tired of the alphabet I can recite it backwards. That's a first grade thing.

zyxwvut............etc.

[zbdent]

17. It means you cast your ballot as Jnoh Smhit ...

pissing off the Repugs ...

[chaplainM]

19. I can read these numerals upside down

1961

[DonEBrook]

22. How do you feel about binary palindromes? lOlOOlOl

:rofl:

[pnwmom]

20. It would only work if you knew to read it from right to left. n/t

[DonEBrook]

21. I learned to do it decades ago. What I can not do is post it like you did.

:D :rofl:

[trof]

24. If you ever hand set type, you learned to do that.

I had a typesetting course in journalism school in the late 50s.
We actually set individual letters by hand.
You learned to read upside down and backwards.
To this day I can walk into an office and, from the other side of the desk, read a letter on the desk.
Not a particularly needed talent.
;-)

[WolverineDG]

30. but comes in handy when you least expect it

;)

dg

[gogoplata]

29. It means you're a genius and everyone that can't read it

is a drooling moron.

feel better?

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. I had major Dyslexia in my youth

Which I still have to fight
so reading that was no problem

[musette_sf]

34. it means they never rode the subway

and were too cheap to buy a paper.

really, that is where i got my upside-down reading skills from.

[surrealAmerican]

36. It means they're not dyslexic enough.

[uppityperson]

39. very cool!

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