Sentence examples for talking backwards from inspiring English sources

The problem with cops anywhere being racist, profiling black people and using excessive force against them isn't their being racist; it is, according to white knights talking backwards, black people noticing it.

"Speaking backwards becomes a metaphor of opposition, of talking back," writes Natalie Lefkowitz, a professor of French applied linguistics at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash., and the author of "Talking Backwards, Looking Forwards: The French Language Game Verlan" (Gunter Narr, 1991), which, when it was published, was one of the first major studies of Verlan.

And third, and most important, Frost and Lynch's absolute commitment to the world they created, a place where middle-aged women share psychic connections with logs, one-armed men hunt demons, besuited dwarves drop clues while talking backwards, and even the owls are not what they seem.

The kid keeps talking backwards!

At 5, I created a talking backwards game called ZAZ.

Oddly enough, I 'd just performed at the very same Metropolitan Room, including my unusual linguistic skill (talking backwards), with a bit on The Wizard of Oz in reverse.

They think we talk backwards.

Their credentials are laid out: Spar can talk backwards and Zaltzman delivered his own child.

No one talked backwards – until the daquiries kicked in – and with the exception of the Japanese cowboy who turned out to be a fashion designer, no one looked all that weird.

As I mentioned, I talk backwards, so many things in my mind happen in reverse.

We shared a history of language, phonetics and mirrors -- my unique linguistic ability to talk backwards, reversing sounds and syllables, his work with voice communications and military codes in World War II.