Why Swedish is a backward language

James Harbeck jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Thu May 15 01:36:29 UTC 2008


>1984 in Roger Ebert _Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion_ (1989 ed.)
>(K.C.: Andrews and MacMeel, 1988) 665: People who run tape recorders
>backward often say that English, played backward, sounds like
>Swedish."

Ha! Everyone knows that English backwards sounds like Russian!

James Harbeck.

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