'I'm speaking English backwards' (I've Got a Secret 12/7/60)
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2011
- "Senga Niprut" (actually Agnes Turpin of Baltimore) appears with her "interpreter," Harriet Haagman of Helsinki. Everyone is led to believe she's speaking Finnish, but it's actually backwards English.
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There was an old lady on David Letterman who could do this. They had a reel-to-reel recorder sitting next to her and taped her speaking backwards, and when the tape was played in reverse you could understand every word! The lady pronounced words phonetically rather than spelling-wise, so the reversed recording sounded nearly perfect.
I wonder if the old lady was this young lady.
It's the difference between "nofelet" (Nohf-el-et) and "enohpelet" (Ee-nohp-el-et)
Bummer that GSN doesnt show these old programs anymore. Another reason to love youtube.
I remember watching this back then. My brother & I got into speaking English backwards. Drove my mother nuts.
Drove your mother stun.
You’re old man. You must be really wise. Are you still alive ? Give me blessings when you go up please 😊
As a Finn myself, I can attest that Mrs. interpreter was speaking just fine Finnish, though. It was not clarified in that video.
I heard "Suomi" and realized it was actual Finnish.
6:39 - It was very briefly clafified that the interpreter was talking Finnish.
@@HunterShows Same.
Thanks for the info. It was strange that they didn’t have a native Finnish speaker so it was hard to know how proficient she was.
@@quizmaster85 It stated that she was speaking Finnish, not how good it was. Hardly any foreigner can speak Finnish well.
Like others have mentioned, I saw a video once of a man who could sing backwards and when reversed you could tell what he was singing. Amazing talent. I suppose he must have listened to a recording backwards and memorized the sounds to make. As an aside, OMG, were Betsy Palmer and Bess Myerson gorgeous or what?
That was great! I used to be able to do that a little back when I was in college. It took me quite a while to think about each sentence though before I could say anything.
It's remarkable how much backwards English sounds like Finnish.
You are incredibly funny!
Glad to see someone else spends their time like I do. EMOSEWA!!!
😂
Technically, it should be muhsaw!
@@zzzut sdrawcab yllacitenohp ro sdrawcab gnilleps? sdrawcab "yllacinhcet" si eno hcihw?
@@david2869 Phonetically is the one. The host explains it.
Sounds like an alcoholic drink! 😆
Hats and gloves. The well dressed woman of the 60s
I would have liked to have heard her answers played backwards.
The two female Panel members are beautiful.
I was taking note of that as well. I remember them from back in the day.
Sorry dude, they are dead, you wont be able to mate with them :(
@Projekt Kobra yeah no hobos and peasants at all. Every single person was a milionaire. No black wuarters cinese gangs only prosperity. Pls read a history book.
I wonder how long she kept this talent up and if she is still alive and does it still.
Or if it was all just a sham :P
I mean like when she sad "madam" and then the host pretty much called out her BS saying it wouldn't be said the same even though it's spelled the same.
@@johndorian4078 what? That doesn't mean it was BS. Madam is madam. That doesn't mean anything.
@@caroltz8220 I'm not saying it wasn't impressive. I'm saying im to lazy to play them back to see.
Although with technology today we could very well test it to see if she was lying.
but still, i call BS on it. and the one example of "madam" it confused her so i'll give her benifit of the doubt. But she said it wrong.
Madam is not madaM the host mansplained to her how she screwed up.
@@johndorian4078 He wasn't "calling out her BS," he was pointing out the difference between what she was doing and simply playing the spoken form backwards. You added a false context to the show. What she did was in no way a "sham."
She died in 2020 apparently.
The host should have let the young lady speaks the names to be replayed in reverse because that's what she DOES VERY WELL and they would have sounded much better than his attempts.
No they wouldn't because she was not speaking backwards, just reversing the letters.
She was amazing to speak English backwards
I love how the host said that the girl was likely young enough to call her by her first name. I miss the etiquette if olden days, particularly when referring to people by a title and their surname. There are many older folks who don't like strangers calling them by their first name. It seems disrespectful to them.
I agree. I have been called "Sir" for about two decades. Sure, I could complain; but I think it's a compliment. I like to think that I've earned the title.
I have a very common first name. A popular boys name in the 1980's. I usually don't respond to my first name much out in public and would actually respond to my last name since it is not as popular. I dont like to be called Mr., sir, or a facsimile there of.
@@Wolfshield7 Usually if I am being called "sir' it is usually followed by '...you're making a scene."
@@Kara_Kay_Eschel 🤣🤣🤣
I do not like strangers calling me by my first name. Especially when they do not even introduce themselves. I do not like someone the age of my granddaughter calling me sweety. I do not like to be patronized.
"sounds better that way" lmao
i loved Henry Morgan. he had the best sense of humor. i guess it would be called dry humor. he always made me laugh and feel good. mwah! Henry :)
@Alexa Penn - re: "i loved Henry Morgan." You are among the few who "loved Henry Morgan." Most found Henry ... annoying.
Nagrom YrneH dovel I
why in the world would they have the host say the names backward when the special guest is a specialist and the reason she was on the show???
Why are you using several "?" marks when one is sufficient?
@@johnjohns6181 trolling for idiots that have nothing better to do?
I totally agree.
Very interesting.. nowadays our game shows consist of spinning the wheel and dropping the ball.
Without those goofy gameshows, American television is nothing but decisive political garbage. That's the only reason I watch game shows.
What a great episode!
How fun!! I loved this one! The host should have had Agnes say something backwards to be recorded. That was silly that he did it himself. She's the guest after all. 🙄 I don't really care for him, but I love the show.
And also rather than say all those names, I would have loved some questions to her -- how old were you when you started doing this? How quickly can you do it usually? Do you have to think about it or does it come easily? This to me is a sign of a very high IQ in her and I wish they had pursued asking about her brain and this skill rather than doing what he did with the names.
@@caroltz8220 I had similar thoughts! He's not the best host, that's for sure. I wish we could rewind time and ask her those questions. 🙂
@@caroltz8220 I totally agree! I don't want to hear him saying the panel's names backwards! And did the one guy on the end actually say something in Finnish, or something in backwards English? They never commented on that!
This is one of the best shows that I've seen on this program so far. This is awesome. There's no way I can speak backwards not in sentences and phrases like she did. I can say my name backwards LOL but it would sound like what he's about to play
Wowwwwwww! Is rmthus an old tv show that both my mom & Nana absolutely loved! I can remember this show vaguely as a little girl, laying on the floor watching it with my baby brother! How my mom loved her game shows( watched them in the hospital even until she sadly passed away on Oct. 27th, 2017 ( How I miss you my “little mommy”, I called her for a tiny thing only 4’8! Loved her & my Nana so dearly!) but this show was a favorite of hers. I think it was an exciting premise from what I remember fur guests “had a secret you had to guess!” My mom & Nana loved the guest host too. I was so little but I really liked him too! What a great memory this was & love seeing it here!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Amazing! What a great show!
RIP Miss Turpin. You can see her obituary if you Google "Agnes Gertrude Turpin obituary. " She was 72 but you can tell it is the same person in this video.
I looked it up. The woman in the obit was born in 1947, and her maiden name was Ferrell; she married Broderick Turpin. This Agnes Turpin from Baltimore wouldn't have been married at age 13, when this show aired. So I don't think it's the same person.
@@footofjuniper8212 -- I disagree. Read the "Share a Memory" in her obituary. They called her Gertrude. She was born in 1947 which would make her 13 in 1960 when this episode of "I've Got a Secret" aired. I can understand why you think she had to have been married at age 13. On the program she was introduced as Senga Niprut, which is Agnes Turpin spelled backwards. Her husband was Broderick Turpin who died in 2012. Maybe there is a mistake in her obituary which I'm still trying to figure out. If you look at her photo on the obituary page, you will see that she has features that closely resemble the girl in the TV episode; especially her eyes and mouth. So I stick by my assertion that the 13 year old in this episode and the Agnes Gertrude Turpin in the obituary are one and the same person.
@@Dr.Pepper001 So you're saying she used her future married name at the time of this recording? That should have been her secret. They'd have never figured it out.
That was fun. Thx for posting. :-DD
Of course they didn't sound the same when played back in reverse, because Agnes spoke written words, not the actual sounds, backwards.
sdrawcab yllacitenohp fo daetsni sdrawcab gnilleps
I downloaded the video and reversed it with ffmpeg. You are correct. She isn't speaking backward. She is visualizing the spelling of the word, and then pronouncing the backward spelling. So her words are wrong for the same reason "Moore" backward was wrong. Technically, it's only slightly more difficult to do than speaking Pig Latin.
@@KarstenJohansson
Thanks for giving a clearer, more detailed explanation than I did.
@@YY4Me133 Your description was spot on. I just tested your theory, and found it to be correct. I wrote a poem that when read aloud and recorded, says the same poem in reverse. It took listening to a LOT of backward speaking to nail that down, and nothing she said reminded me of backward speaking. What she did was essentially a type of pig latin spelling manipulation that's quite easy to run in your head. Real backward sentences take a LOT more work because even the accent changes everything.
@@KarstenJohansson
Real backward speaking would require one to listen to audio played backward to know what it sounds like. I don't think that anyone could do that in their head.
My first language is spelled phonetically, every letter is always pronounced the same, so if you read the reversed letters and record it, it will come out right 😁
Hawaiian?
Malayalam 😁
I had to google it
She is making as much sense as today's politician's double-talk.
I disagree. Because what she is saying DOES make sense if done forwards. Lol
@@Tht1Gy Actually you are right. She makes MORE sense than today's politicians.
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In the 1970s there was a German lady who appeared on television shows who could speak backwards phonetically. She had a specially modified biderectional tape recorder (with glitter on the spools! :) so she could present what she just said to the audience. She also did songs, poems and such.
! ti evorP
Very Interesting. Just finished watching this video and wonder if this girl now a women is still living. I'm from Maryland Westminster to be exact. A small country town 30 miles Northwest of Baltimore. I wonder was she just a teen when she appeared on IGaS or did she just look young for her age, and since they were talking about English, being from Maryland you say Marylind. Just like people form PA pronounce Lancaster Co Lankister Co. I been around who people from that county and when someone says it the other way they're quick to say it's LankISter not Lancaster.
The auto-generated caption machine was about to explode, trying to “interpret” that!
Lol, close capition, guess it would not be available for this program.
If the Finnish interpreter cannot understand English, I call on my Finnish fellow observers to translate, here, what she asked.
They should have asked the girl to say their names backwards.
Absolutely marvelous. ♥️
Madam and Radar are palindromes, spelled the same forward and backward, but not pronounced the same: Raydar vs Radyar.
Poppycock
Wow, that’s an amazing skill!
I enjoy seeing Bess and Betsy, 2 gorgeous ladies.
this is like the swedish bookstore scene in the film "top secret". that was filmed backward, saying exactly was the lines were, but in reverse order, while they walked backward. when it was played backwards, it sounded swedish.
I just watched Val Kilmer slide up the pole in that scene. It definitely does not sound like Swedish.
Very clever idea and skill!
She reminds me of Jacky Kennedy, the President's wife.
Jason Voorhees mother was stunning when she was young
Looking at the dates of these comments, it is interesting that "The Algorithm" recommended this 10 year old video to so many people so recently.
(Or not...)
Fascinating!
When he spoke backwards Gary sounded like Little Man From Another Place from Twin Peaks. Please tell me the curtains were red
We will have to wait 25 years for the answer.
@@larsanderson3072 Nice comeback
I reversed the audio and I didn't hear any english.
tryithere Now that is interesting. But if she's reversing the words as spelled... that changes all.
Like someone else said she isn't speaking backwards phonetically.
Thank you. I was wondering if they would play it backwards and it's gibberish both ways. Cute though.
@@mytexasdays1526 idiot she says it like it's spelled backwards. Program becomes Margrop. Not literal backwards
I used to watch the Gary Moore Show when I was a kid (yeah, I’m old).
Nope…. You are definitely not old! The 60’s & 70’s are the “ new “ 40’s & 50’s I read somewhere ha!🤣You have an excellent memory on top if it, so you are wayyyyy ahead of so many others, I need to add! Take Care!
Instead of the host trying to do it, why didn't they just reverse the tape of the girl doing it? For all we know she could have been speaking Martian! :)
He is aware it would sound ridiculous and in a way undermine her talent. Even when she speaks backwards, her intonation is as if she is speaking forward. Same as how the announcer sounds weird trying to pronounce the names backward, he uses intonation as if he was saying them forward. So they end up sounding weird. Interestingly, there ARE spoken languages that use a reverse intonation structure to English. I was a language trainer and funny enough, this has come up before in discussing secrets to ancient languages where it would seem some ancient people were aware and deliberate about doing this with their 'native' language. Perhaps the bibles statement on God mixing up the languages in Babel has some merit to it after all xD
@@Synconntez I appreciate what you say but how does anyone know she was speaking English backwards? We only have their word for that! The point I was making is that the host was attempting it phonetically after probably trying to do it a very short time. If they'd reversed the tape of the girl, we could have judged for ourselves and if it was her 'talent', why would it have sounded ridiculous?! I do know my mother and her long-standing friendship with a school girl friend of hers created their own language by putting egg in between syllables ... she could almost speak it fluently and they did it so nobody else would understand them. :) When I was about 10 or 11, she used to amuse my brother and I with it and we even tried to learn a bit of it. For example, if she wanted to say treble stamps, it would be treggle beggle stegamps! lol
@@NickJay Oh I see what you mean. To be honest, I also wanted to hear her tape reversed. I actually did have the same wish as you but for different reasons. I just believed she could do it, but I wanted to confirm what I knew about language enunciation and intonation from hearing her tape reversed. Hmmm...am I gullible because I just trust they weren't lying to me? LOL
From the way she said Finnish backwards, it would appear she spells the letter backwards [H-sinn-if] instead of using the verbal eng. pronounciation [Sh-ini-f]. The host example of madam kinda proved the same purpose, the girl said her version [Madam->madaM] while the host insisted on the verbal version of it [Ma-dum -> Mud-am]. So her way of speaking would have not sounded good in forward because she would use the spelling, but english does not abide by its own spellings (rough said verbally becomes Ruf, spelled backwards Hgu-or)
Im not sure about the longer sentences she used, but from these few shorter examples she uses the backwards spelling, but spoken english doesnt, thus it would sound nothing like it. But I dont how she didnt give it away, and succedded in making it sound fluend and almost passed for another language.
@@Synconntez I believed what they said about her, too. I thought it might be because they didn't have the technology back then to broadcast video in reverse but then the host showed they did, it simply made no sense at all!
I never thought of trying to speak English backwards but I thought my grandfather was awesome because he could say the alphabet backwards in under 3 seconds.
I can say it backwards, but not the full thing in 3 seconds.
Edit- if I say it as fast as I can, I can say it at 4.72 seconds.
Amazing, as I thought I knew the only guy who could do this. He was also a saxophonist, which explains why he always played backwards as well.
Focking idiot. You think your friend ….
That is so cool how English sounds like a complete different language when spoken backwards.
Maryanne247 It sounds very staccato just like Finnish.
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So you've never tried that?
Why do i have to go back over half a century to see an interesting TV show?
ok, ok, after listening to this, I"M FINISHED!
Her double negative must've been a literal translation.
Either that, or she's just stupid.
If he wanted to be snarky he should have asked her to say "Wow" backwards
Mr Cullen killed it.
Who knew that Bill Cullen could actually speak Finnish?
When Paul McCartney used to check into hotels he would he the name Ian Iachamoe. Which is what Paul McCartney sounds like backwards.
Jeez...that buzzer is right out of the Milgram Experiment.
Red Rum! Red Rum!
Of course it doesn't work when you do it backwards; she's not doing it based on phenomes, but a reconstruction of pronunciation based on spelling. It'd be a lot better if she did it phonetically: finnish ==> Shinnif instead of hsinnif and so forth. Still amazing either way, of course.
Yes, it would be much better with phonemes, I agree. The host muddled it all by giving some examples that were (half) done that way. I think he didn’t really understand the difference. Also, it seems like she was just doing each word separately rather than her whole answers.
@@icturner23 Exactly right. There are people who can do it phonetically so it comes out right if you reverse the tape but that is not what the young girl was doing.
I thought the same thing. I still do.
@@presto709 you're prob right. Can the nd in land and ng in song even be pronounced in reverse????
And when she reversed the word Finnish, her reversal had three syllables. She said it twice with 3 syllables each time. Listened at 50% speed and she said h see nif. Not the h sound, she said the letter h like she was saying the alphabet. H see nif???? Should be shi nif.
Wonder if she's delusional.
She didn't even get madam right. The host had to explain it to her. 😭😭🤣🤣
That was a good one!
Seems to me, that if you wanted to accurately pronounce a word backwards, you would have to do it phonetically and not by spelling, if you wanted to play it back and it be recognizable...
If you’d like a good giggle, turn on closed captioning.
I always wandered how Archie Campbell (on Hee-Haw) learned to do that!
Like being at the most wonderful cocktail party Ever!
Is she saying sentence backwards, or words? Or both?
Awesome just awesome. :)
I use to watch this as a kid, but, I don't remember this episode.
This was really weird!!! They didn’t even talk about if she was just born doing this or it is a gift or how long she had been doing it, etc.?!
It potentially could come out very clear if the sounds were based only on phonemes and duration and then pronounced backwards.
He says the finish teacher will help translate to English, and it sounded like she did, but the girl never spoke any finish. It was all set up.
Senga Pinrut? Her real name is Agnes Turnip / Turnip Agnes.
Turpin. Like Ben Turpin.
Madam's second syllable is pronounced, depending on the English dialect, putting the emphasis as damn or dawm.
she must still be alive I wonder what she did with her life
That was GOOD!
Takes a great deal of intelligence to store the sentence in your brain and then read it backwards.
Why would he not have the girl say things backward and then record that
It's just a dialect called "Sdrawkcab". Yltsenoh, sega rof daed neeb sah Gits! Nam daed, no em nrut!
how much time did that take to type correctly?
bundeligafan its from the beetles
Miguel Gonzalez
i don't understand
its turn me on dead man, from number 9 i believe
uh i see now
did he really died?
Agnes passed away just last year
i think Gary was wrong when he corrected her pronunciation of madam.
˙ʇɥƃıɹ sı ǝɥ 'ou
I took the time to record her words and play it backwards, but i couldn't understand a thing...
It doesnt work like that
Get a life
I think she was speaking words the way they would sound if you had reversed the letters, which is different than verbalizing the sounds in reverse. So, for example, the word time would be emit, which is different than a reverse recording, which would sound closer to "might"(but still different).
So I think you would need to write down what she says first, then reverse the letters.
Ha so that is where Missy Elliot got that idea in her video "Work It".
those were the days. family shows that whole families used to watch. talking backwards no doubt a hit. 1960, we all considered a new decade. the old world changed.
What did Bill Cullen say in French?
So that's where Lynch got the idea...
It’s interesting that Agnes had/has a slight southern twang even though she is from Maryland.
I totally noticed that! I was thinking she was from Kentucky with that accent!
Henry was a smoker, and, so was Bill.
Amazing
Better than the actual dialogue was the subtitles...that was comedy.
I sure would to see her hooked up to an emri and we could see the neurological activity of her brain at work.
There is a guy who can actually speak backward so that a recording comes out right.
SB !
Donald Trump?
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So what was it that Bill said?
At 4:38 What did Bill Cullen say?
I had to read the comments to see if anyone else commented on just how stunningly gorgeous Betsy Palmer is. I'm not the only one.
Tho the words, as spelled, are backwards, each letter is forwards in pronunciation & volume, thus the backward tape is what sounds each letter backwards, barely understandable.
years ago. wonder what she did with her life
I found an obituary for an Agnes Turpin of Baltimore, born in 1947, (this girl is 13 in 1960) and it mentioned northing about being on I've Got a Secret, or having the ability to talk backward. Either she had no good memories of this TV appearance, or it was another Agnes Turpin in the same city and the same age.
@@brianarbenz7206 mahalo!
"And now, a man who only speaks the beginnings of words."
"Goo eve"
"And how are you today?"
"Fi tha yo"
"And is it true you only speak the beginnings of words?"
"Yes, that's true."
"Hey, wait a minute. You just spoke complete words there."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I should have explained. I make an exception during the third and fourth lines of every conversation."
"So the next thing you say, you will return to only speaking the beginnings of words, right?"
"Ye tha ri."
"Well, we have a surprise second guest we would like you to meet- someone who only speaks the ends of words."
"Ood ning."
Monty pythons
Not really backwards speaking as the sounds are not pronounced the same way. For instance, I think "Finnish" , phonetically backwards would be "Shinnif"not "ysinnif"
What's My Secret? I know how to speak English. 😎
She died in April of 2020.
No wonder she looked at Bill Cullen so strangely 😅