As an occupational therapist who work in a school setting and teaches kid on handwriting, this is really fascinating and can explain why some kids have trouble writing letters with the correct orientation.
Describing somthing on the right or left, is so strange when going from 3d to 2d. Like when she's describing the Torches in the right-hand we think of it from the objects point of view but when we think of a 2d object like the Apple we think of it from our point of view. And we don't question it as often as we think, unless it's a character in a show or cartoon... Like unless specified the torch is on the left and right.
Mirror images in Hindi is tough. Cuz the alphabets are more complex than English. Chinese and Korean are even tougher to mirror Eg: Try mirroring these letters अ, ऊ, छ, झ
I grew up with both arabic and latin writing systems. I did this mirroring thing all the time with the latin and never with the arabic script. I would guess its because letters in arabic have to connect in a distinct way to the following letter (I'm probably wrong its only a guess)
I was 8 when I finally understood which way the number “3” curved and how to twist the curve to write the number “8” instead of drawing 2 mirroring number “3”
I can't believe so many other people did this as kids. My teacher's were convinced I was dyslexic, than doctor's just said it was because I was left handed and this led to my teacher not wanting to teach me. I was so traumatized and now I learn basically everyone did it. 😂😂😭😭
@@ihave6assignmentsduetoday410 Hopefully she eventually learned that it's normal for kids to write backwards and you just have to sit across from a lefty, not beside them. 👀👀
So sorry for you. My daughter used to write her name backwards, and we were told that she would soon learn by herself how to write it normally. And of course she did.
When I was 6 years old and learning English, I could not distinguish "b" and "d" for my life. The word "bed" helped me, though. I also was convinced that a minute had 59 seconds, because on a timer going backwards it goes "10:02", "10:01", "10:00", "09:59"..
My school was a little bad at makeing me learn the d&b diffrence, the would have us look at some drawing of a man and a woman and the man had a beer belly and his stomach was the curviture of the letter b. And the woman i think was carying a backpack or something. But that didn't help me at all and I just had to learn it eventually.
Up until I was around 8 or 9, I would say 12:01 as twelve zero one. I would say that for all of the time 12:01-12:09. The only time that I said correctly was 12:00.
haha i loved korn when i was a kid. my parent's didn't know i stole my older brother's cd and i would listen to it in my discman at school and on the bus. the good old days.
---------------------------a---- Wait, Russian is always handwritten in cursive? I’ve been learning a little here and there, but I figured the writing would be pretty similar to the apple keyboard. I mean, I know there’s a cursive alphabet, but where I live, everyone writes in non-cursive. So, is cursive more common in Russia?
Quick question : "do chinese or japanese also do this too ? Writing sylabbles backward or in reverse ? Or even any other non-latin-charachter-spelt language ?
I still mess up left and right because when I learned this, they taught us that "right is the side of the hand you use to write" me, a left handed kid: aight
I'm mildly dyslexic and I had a lot of problems in school with writing. But when I learned to type, it was a great release, since I didn't have to form each letter. Even today, when I look in the rear view mirror, I don't think Right or Left, but rather driver's side or passenger's side. In grade school I developed a pattern. I would hold my hands a certain way and say: This is the hand that holds the paper; this is my left hand. This is the hand that holds the pencil; this is my right hand. Eventually I could simply think about having done that and remember it.
Ross Parlette like your pointing finger towards the ceiling the your thumb Stretched out to make an L You do the same with both hands and whatever hand makes the L shape is left and what makes the backward L is right
I’m left handed, and when I wrote backwards I was told it was related to my brain being "reversed". Btw, growing up when we still wrote with fountain pens, writing from right to left kept your hand out of the wet ink. 😊I can still read right to left just as easily as the "normal" way.
This is actually something that leonardo da vinci did in his writings for himself, and people theorize that it may have been because he was left handed or just to make it harder for others to read his scientific research(like the catholic church).
Also, if writing in English, you’re pull the pencil (or whatever) instead of pushing in. When a right-handed person write left to right, they pull the pencil in the direction the hand moves, but a lefty has to push, which takes a little more effort. A lefty writing “backwards” gets to pull the pencil. Just a side note, my high school Japanese teacher made sure I wrote the strokes “correctly”-left to right. English t and Japanese 十 are pretty similar, but I write the horizontal line in t right to left (pulling) and the horizontal line in 十 left to right (pushing).
I'm ambidextrous, I can only write mirrored with my left hand, because I learned how to write with my right hand, I'm a bit out of practice with my left though, since the world favors the right hand, so I'm functionally righthanded now.
When my mom was teaching me numbers, i would write the 5 facing the other way. She would get mad and repeatedly correct me. One time I got so scared and upset that I wrote 5 upsidedown!😂
When I was in kindergarten my mom spent her afternoon and night trying to make me write the number 2, I remember we went to bed until I made it right (around 3 am)
I remember one time in kindergarten we had a math test and I got all the questions right, just on one of them I wrote the “5” backwards and even though you could tell it was a 5, and all the questions were right, my teacher gave me a low score lol.
Thank you so much for this. I was stressing about my 3 year olds flipped writing (as I am stuck being her teacher now that schools are closed) and now I can relax till she is 7! Perfect timing. Thank you. ❤️
I noticed she's a leftie. I am too and I, too, wrote backwards sometimes as a kid. Does being left-handed has anything to do with it? This is super interesting.
So here's something funny. I didn't do this when I was younger. I started doing it after the age of 10 but only with numbers. Turns out that I could also read and write fully mirrored, though I write mirrored better with my left (non-dominant) hand. And read and write upside down, but that's a learned skill from being a tutor. The kicker: I can write something both backwards and upside down for apparently no discernable reason. HOWEVER, I consistently made mirrored and flipped errors with only NUMBERS. In my second year of college, I found out I had numerical dyslexia--dyslexia that affects only numbers. Since then, I have developed dyslexia with letters, too.
It was easy for me to visualize the sides of these two things. Don't know why it sounds like a big deal. Maybe it's because I'm autistic and I have a really good memory - or is it that these things are too easy? Now I want a full video only of "guess on which side is the thing of a famous image thing". Lol
@@Inseut I agree, me and my dad both got these right. Although men are supposed to be better with visual/spacial stuff especially left vs right. I wanna play that game too.
Jatin Tripathi I’m dyslexic I just memorizing a baby b is facing the same way as a big B , you just take the top off 😂 wish someone had told me this in elementary school
What percentage of your time has been dedicated to the world ending? Have you ever spoke to someone about a topic that wasn't the world ending within the last couple months?
Considering that "cactus" originally comes from Greek, I would say "cactuses." "Octopus" becomes "octopodes" and "platypus" becomes "platypodes," so I guess the "proper" plural would be "cactopodes."
Milagros Gabriela Vargas right? Are they dyslexic or something? I was writing properly when i was 4 and i remember having a reading contest with a friend at the book bin.
Me too! Especially annoying since I’m Swedish, so I read comics from Europe too, and when panels are in different sizes they are read differently in European comics compared to American comics. Let’s say that the panels are two on top of each other and to the right of them is a long panel the same length as the two on the left together. In European comics that would be read top left panel -> right panel -> bottom left panel, but in American comics it would be read top left panel -> bottom left panel -> right panel.
@@ksub91 Belgian comics I used to read often used little arrows to disambiguate the order of the panels in situations like that. (Similar to these arrows ⇨ ⇩ ⇦ but drawn as part of the outer border of the panel.)
Irish Eggs no, but in order to properly write, you have to know the character, and from day one we are taught the radical starts from the left, and then the rest on the right. So i guess it’s more difficult to be flipped compared to english since its more complicated
@@AridChannelOfficialSG it is not a mess, the strokes all have a very logical order, but like for everything else, it's just a matter of getting used to it and learning
I am dyslexic and left handed when I was small I started at the back of the book and wrote right to left and usually in mirror writing. Still today when browsing a book I start at the back working forwards is natural to me, maybe that is just being left handed. I also have to consciously think about what is left and right its not instinctive. However, I knew for certain the apple symbol, and the statue of liberty questions without thinking, except working out which the correct word would be to describe it.
@@goldogwolly Not really, Chinese was originally left to right for thousands of years and then switched to right to left around the time of the Shang dynasty. Ever since the cultural revolution its been left to right and up to down/horizontal.
The lack of directional identity in nature is also why many videos can be played in a "flipped" orientation (usually to avoid copyright strike) without the viewer feeling too odd (until, of course, when something with written letters appear on screen).
One of the best videos I've seen from Vox (and I saw more than I'm comfortable admitting): super interesting and yet simple and straight to the point, not over done. Congratulations!
To be honest I’m not kidding you, I’ve literally never done this, I remember seeing a few of my friends in kindergarten do it but I never understood why.
This makes so much sense. I've been movie obsessed since I was a kid. What almost always happens is that I'll remember shots crystal clearly in my head, but when I re-watch the movie I find that my brain flipped the shots laterally for some reason. I've never understood why this is a thing, but this video clears it up quite well. Cool stuff. Thanks.
My son did this. Drove me nuts. He's in grade 2 now and doing it less often. Just remember every kid is different so don't compare your kids and love them all equally!
Do you ever think about how the word “right” isn’t just a direction but another way of saying “correct” but the opposite of the direction “right” is the direction “left” but the word “left” is NOT another word for “incorrect” or “wrong”. The word “left” is however used like this “ there were only 2 cupcakes LEFT.” 🤷♀️
I'm 37 years old and I still do this. Just swapping p & b occasionally when writing or typing which is stranger. No other quirks so I'm perfectly happy.
I've noticed this so much with my little brother whos 7yrs. I was thinking that he may be dyslexic if it continued. But I definitely wasnt gonna rush to label him too soon, but this helps a lot knowing its pretty normal and it likely to pass.
They were all squggliy lines to me, Mom & Dad had different writing styles, so I decided to draw. Then since engineering class I've been writing in ALL CAPS.
"You have to learn that, in English, script goes from left to right." And also, ignore the letters altogether and follow obscure rules for pronouncing words that render more anarchy than actual order, and you get things like hors d'oeuvres, the fact that the L in colonel is an R, and the f, o, and r in "comfortable" are totally silent.
In American English, at least, comfortable has all its syllables pronounced. The difference is that the -or- sound has migrated and comes after the -t- sound, which makes it comf-ter-ble. Really the only sound that's missing is the -a-. This transposition of sounds/syllables is called metathesis.
When I was a kid, I had the hardest time telling the difference between d, b, p, and q. They looked like mirrored versions of each other. I would get stressed as my mother made me work out the difference.
Until the end of first grade, I wrote all my lowercase y's backwards. It became such a problem that it got its own slip on my spelling ring. No one else in my class had this, though. At least, not that I ever knew of.
There are still languages that are written opposite to english. And I wouldn't say they are backwards, especially since those languages came first and are still used today. Maybe english is backwards..
@@jayjohnson8403 I was talking about the Etruscan Alphabet, the forefather of the Latin Alphabet, not the English language itself. They wrote both left to right and right to left.
@@jayjohnson8403 No, actually backwards, as in one line in one direction and the next line in the opposite direction with characters mirrored. It's called boustrophedon. A lot of early Greek, Etruscan and even Latin is written boustrophedon.
Finally! I've been thinking about mirror generalization for a while now without knowing what it was called. I was trying to understand why I never seemed remember the side a feature of an object was on and why it seemed that handedness was so arbitrary. For me, it makes studying stereochemistry very challenging because of the 2-D way we draw chemical structures.
I got all those left/right questions right because I don't see things like that at all. I can't verbally say if an arrow is facing left or right, but I remember it visually.
When I was 20, I taught myself to write backwards, read backwards and - bonus - read upside down. I did this because I'm left-handed and I felt that it was more natural for me to be writing backwards, from right to left, rather than forcing myself into a right-handed world. All I'm left with is a quirky party trick!
Vox teaching me stuff I didn't know I needed to know.
That's like the main concept of vox to me
.wonk ot dedeen I wonk t'ndid I ffuts em gnihcaet xoV
As an occupational therapist who work in a school setting and teaches kid on handwriting, this is really fascinating and can explain why some kids have trouble writing letters with the correct orientation.
Describing somthing on the right or left, is so strange when going from 3d to 2d. Like when she's describing the Torches in the right-hand we think of it from the objects point of view but when we think of a 2d object like the Apple we think of it from our point of view. And we don't question it as often as we think, unless it's a character in a show or cartoon... Like unless specified the torch is on the left and right.
would be kind of fun to see how kids do this in other languages like Chinese, Hindi, Korean or something like that
Delfin, *Hindi
underated comment?? no
Hindi bruh**
Hindu is a person who follows Hinduism
Mirror images in Hindi is tough. Cuz the alphabets are more complex than English. Chinese and Korean are even tougher to mirror
Eg: Try mirroring these letters
अ, ऊ, छ, झ
I grew up with both arabic and latin writing systems. I did this mirroring thing all the time with the latin and never with the arabic script. I would guess its because letters in arabic have to connect in a distinct way to the following letter (I'm probably wrong its only a guess)
I was 8 when I finally understood which way the number “3” curved and how to twist the curve to write the number “8” instead of drawing 2 mirroring number “3”
i was 9 when i figured which way Z faced, i remember something written on a billboard and realizing I was writing it wrong
I was i thing under 5 i use to wrote 6 facing left and some times i got it right some times i did it rong...
Edit: and d and b
@@phosphenevision I used to get 6 and 9 wrong.
@@ankita7342 69 😎
I used to draw "8" with two circles lol
I can't believe so many other people did this as kids. My teacher's were convinced I was dyslexic, than doctor's just said it was because I was left handed and this led to my teacher not wanting to teach me. I was so traumatized and now I learn basically everyone did it. 😂😂😭😭
That's terrible :(
What a terrible teacher!
@@ihave6assignmentsduetoday410 Hopefully she eventually learned that it's normal for kids to write backwards and you just have to sit across from a lefty, not beside them. 👀👀
@@notnormalyet Hopefully she got better. 😂
So sorry for you. My daughter used to write her name backwards, and we were told that she would soon learn by herself how to write it normally. And of course she did.
When I was 6 years old and learning English, I could not distinguish "b" and "d" for my life. The word "bed" helped me, though. I also was convinced that a minute had 59 seconds, because on a timer going backwards it goes "10:02", "10:01", "10:00", "09:59"..
Programmers: Am I a joke to you?
My school was a little bad at makeing me learn the d&b diffrence, the would have us look at some drawing of a man and a woman and the man had a beer belly and his stomach was the curviture of the letter b. And the woman i think was carying a backpack or something. But that didn't help me at all and I just had to learn it eventually.
Up until I was around 8 or 9, I would say 12:01 as twelve zero one. I would say that for all of the time 12:01-12:09. The only time that I said correctly was 12:00.
When I was little sometimes I put the 5 in other way :v
I have never wrote backward in school 'cause i've learned the alphabet since I was 2 years old
which is no wonder why kids back then really dig KoЯn
Я is a Russian letter. And some Russian kids with the same problem spell it as R
По
haha i loved korn when i was a kid. my parent's didn't know i stole my older brother's cd and i would listen to it in my discman at school and on the bus. the good old days.
koyan
@@zehan2316 yes
Everybody: "Toys я Us, Koяn"
Russians who speak English: "Toys Ya Us, Koyan"
Translation: Toys I am us, Koyan.
omg haha
@@idle-hands *USSR National Anthem Plays*
In Soviet Russia, the Toys I am us.
@The Russified Asian check vox's mirror at 0:42
я
Russians:
Яеа||у вяо?
"Yaeallu vyao"
@Axxometis "yo vyao im ioyamal'" is what you just wrote, basically
I'm Russian, and I'm struggling to understand what is written there, I'm just reading yaeea||oo vyao?
Oh, don’t even get me started on the Latin N and the Cyrillic И :)
---------------------------a---- Wait, Russian is always handwritten in cursive? I’ve been learning a little here and there, but I figured the writing would be pretty similar to the apple keyboard. I mean, I know there’s a cursive alphabet, but where I live, everyone writes in non-cursive. So, is cursive more common in Russia?
It’s harder when you speak two languages and one of them is left to right and the other is right to left
and here I was thinking about learning Japanese
oof
Me With English and Arabic smh
Ha, yeah true btw. Urdu and Eng for me
Noodle Language?
Me who's dyslexic and still does this: 👁👄👁
Ok
Ok
me wondering why i cant find who asked 👁👄👁
ⁱf ʸøʉ aɹᵉ ȡʏᶳɭeꭓⁱʗ ʈhᴇn ʀəᵃᶑ ᵗɦis
@@wikiddikdik1352 im not but ok
Something that's not related to coronavirus. exactly what we need.
No. You're in the minority.
Your comment is, exactly what I don't need
You ruined it by reminding us of coronavirus.
guys we need every single video to be about corona
@@lemon3905, there's nothing left to discuss, we basically knew 'everything' about it.
In the intro if "vox" was written as "xov" that would have looked cool
that's what I was thinking...
Missed opportunity
looked*
@@aditsood9369 yea, I realized that mistake and fixed it
Well it could be that they wrote some of the individual letters flipped ... although v,o, and x are all mirror symmetric anyways ...
@@Danyel615 😂that can be a possibility
Quick question : "do chinese or japanese also do this too ? Writing sylabbles backward or in reverse ? Or even any other non-latin-charachter-spelt language ?
I use Chinese and we don’t. Writing a Chinese letter reverse is pretty hard tbh
Most importantly does this happen in Arabic or Hebrew where its written right to left ?
Edit: forgot ly
I'm curious too
I know it can happen with Cyrillic! But it's because those work the same as the Latin letters, just with a different symbol.
Jan Chu so true I mean if you look at the characters for 1,2, and 3 those three would be the easiest to flip 😂
I still mess up left and right because when I learned this, they taught us that "right is the side of the hand you use to write" me, a left handed kid: aight
I'm mildly dyslexic and I had a lot of problems in school with writing. But when I learned to type, it was a great release, since I didn't have to form each letter.
Even today, when I look in the rear view mirror, I don't think Right or Left, but rather driver's side or passenger's side.
In grade school I developed a pattern. I would hold my hands a certain way and say: This is the hand that holds the paper; this is my left hand. This is the hand that holds the pencil; this is my right hand. Eventually I could simply think about having done that and remember it.
Same, I don't distinguish left or right for me is pencil side and non pencil side 😂
I just put my hands in L’s like most teachers taught us. The paper and pencil seems cooler tho
@@mightypurplelicious3209 Could you expand on that? I guess I was never taught that.
Ross Parlette like your pointing finger towards the ceiling the your thumb Stretched out to make an L
You do the same with both hands and whatever hand makes the L shape is left and what makes the backward L is right
@@mightypurplelicious3209 Thanks.
Why am I proud of myself for getting both the Statue of Liberty and apple logo questions right? 😂
Same lol
Puns are good humor!
Me too
Statue of Liberty is ez. Most people have a dominant right hand.
im actually confused on how they managed to get it wrong, you just imagine the stature and see that its the right hand
I’m left handed, and when I wrote backwards I was told it was related to my brain being "reversed". Btw, growing up when we still wrote with fountain pens, writing from right to left kept your hand out of the wet ink. 😊I can still read right to left just as easily as the "normal" way.
This is actually something that leonardo da vinci did in his writings for himself, and people theorize that it may have been because he was left handed or just to make it harder for others to read his scientific research(like the catholic church).
Me too! I can relate so much
I agree with you I'm a lefty and i can read and write in mirrors easily.
Also, if writing in English, you’re pull the pencil (or whatever) instead of pushing in. When a right-handed person write left to right, they pull the pencil in the direction the hand moves, but a lefty has to push, which takes a little more effort. A lefty writing “backwards” gets to pull the pencil.
Just a side note, my high school Japanese teacher made sure I wrote the strokes “correctly”-left to right. English t and Japanese 十 are pretty similar, but I write the horizontal line in t right to left (pulling) and the horizontal line in 十 left to right (pushing).
I'm ambidextrous, I can only write mirrored with my left hand, because I learned how to write with my right hand, I'm a bit out of practice with my left though, since the world favors the right hand, so I'm functionally righthanded now.
When my mom was teaching me numbers, i would write the 5 facing the other way. She would get mad and repeatedly correct me. One time I got so scared and upset that I wrote 5 upsidedown!😂
When I was in kindergarten my mom spent her afternoon and night trying to make me write the number 2, I remember we went to bed until I made it right (around 3 am)
stop lying how u know that u were 5
@@ip5799 She didn't say she was 5.
@@ip5799 a lot of people remember some things from when they were 5 and 4 and maybe someone told them when they grew up so you never know
People do have early memories
I remember one time in kindergarten we had a math test and I got all the questions right, just on one of them I wrote the “5” backwards and even though you could tell it was a 5, and all the questions were right, my teacher gave me a low score lol.
that sounds a bit traumatizing for a kindergartner
Yeah the teachers and my parents just went along with it.
i don’t know if this is 100% correct, but this is how I remember it.
Hold up, you had tests in kindergarten?!?
Aisha Ahmed you didn’t!?
Thank you so much for this. I was stressing about my 3 year olds flipped writing (as I am stuck being her teacher now that schools are closed) and now I can relax till she is 7! Perfect timing. Thank you. ❤️
I always wrote upside down as a kid.
I’m from Australia.
Did you hit the like button upside down?
Can someone explain this thing to me? -not an aussie
ǝɹǝɥ ǝɯɐs
@@ottovonmier7089 The joke is that australia is called the down under.
@@ottovonmier7089 southern hemisphere
0:41 lost opportunity to write "xov"
@DTX Reditor no
@DTX Reditor no
@DTX Reditor no
Vox always answers the questions I never knew I had😂
I noticed she's a leftie. I am too and I, too, wrote backwards sometimes as a kid. Does being left-handed has anything to do with it?
This is super interesting.
Nah, i'm right handed, still did this
But you're probably more likely to, because you would want to kind of drag your hand away from the writing
I’m a lefty and as a young kid I wrote everything backwards
@@AlexThePharaoh Me too lol
I'm a leftie and I did it in SAT'S (tests you do in the year / grade when you tern 11)
“Kids under 7 has done it at some point”
Lol I couldn’t even write back then
Dyslexia?
Australians watching this: I'm 4 parralel scriptures ahead of you
lol so true as an australian here
Please explain
*draws a water image of debt*
*parallel
Can confirm.
My mom thought I was the second Leonardo da Vinci because I also mirror wrote everything
Can you still write like that lol..
@@harshithvdn1449 I can
"Why do kids write backwards?"
Me: Dyslexia.
M marred is M
why did i laugh at this
SAME!
Yeah exactly
facts. This just seems like an excuse for parents not wanting to diagnose their kids
So here's something funny.
I didn't do this when I was younger. I started doing it after the age of 10 but only with numbers.
Turns out that I could also read and write fully mirrored, though I write mirrored better with my left (non-dominant) hand. And read and write upside down, but that's a learned skill from being a tutor.
The kicker: I can write something both backwards and upside down for apparently no discernable reason.
HOWEVER, I consistently made mirrored and flipped errors with only NUMBERS.
In my second year of college, I found out I had numerical dyslexia--dyslexia that affects only numbers.
Since then, I have developed dyslexia with letters, too.
“Since then, I have developed with letters too.”
F
Mayumi’s World you sure thats not an E?
kimberly yes, it’s not an e.
It's very common with left handed kids.
Oh god.
I thought I was the only kid with that problem.
I don't rember making the same mistake, perhaps I just don't remember it...
Luke Balgan im 11 i NEVER remember writing letters backwards. Im the best at spelling though sooooo .
same, my mom was always like I was the only kid.
@@drz4206 Clearly not 😂
h- how can you think you're the only one eye-
It's a good thing she didn't throw those drawings out. I can't even find my eighth grade math test.
I found my 4th grade journals and discovered my handwriting hasn't changed
Me: How do you *not* know what side the bite in the apple logo is on?
Also me: Guesses the wrong side
Yet you'd probably be able to pick it out if presented with a side by side comparison. It is weird how we cannot always access what we know.
That was easy
Had to think hard about the liberty statute but got it right
It was easy for me to visualize the sides of these two things. Don't know why it sounds like a big deal. Maybe it's because I'm autistic and I have a really good memory - or is it that these things are too easy? Now I want a full video only of "guess on which side is the thing of a famous image thing". Lol
@@Inseut I agree, me and my dad both got these right.
Although men are supposed to be better with visual/spacial stuff especially left vs right.
I wanna play that game too.
KensoulEu Could be? I mean some people definitely have a better memory of things like that, maybe there is a video. You should look.
It took me until 4th grade before I didn't have to think about the direction d or b went before writing it.
I'm blown away that people didn't know on which side the bite was taken out of the Apple logo.
dang that's something so normal when you're little and so bizarre when you're a grown up
3:28 I hope you gave that good boy a pat after filming,. He did a good job modelling for us.
Omg I still wonder if my junior school teachers could see this cos' I always had trouble in writing b and d.
Now I love myself!!
Jatin Tripathi I’m dyslexic I just memorizing a baby b is facing the same way as a big B , you just take the top off 😂 wish someone had told me this in elementary school
*The world ending*
Vox: “ahh yess kids writing letters backwards”
It's a refreshing topic
Supremelyvida I’m here for it lol we can go out with some wholesome content
What percentage of your time has been dedicated to the world ending? Have you ever spoke to someone about a topic that wasn't the world ending within the last couple months?
@@coreblaster6809 far too much, in my opinion.
Supremelyvida as a parent homeschooling twin kindergarteners, this was super relevant to my daily apocalypse life
Normal kid: Really
Kindergarten kid: Яεα/\γ
“It’s an apple with a bite on it”
Me: wait there’s a bite in the logo
When I was 7 arguing with my sister: NO ITS CACTUS
sister - NO ITS CACTIE
NO ITS CACTUS
NO ITS CACTIE
Spicem It’s actually Cacti
it's cacti :3
Considering that "cactus" originally comes from Greek, I would say "cactuses." "Octopus" becomes "octopodes" and "platypus" becomes "platypodes," so I guess the "proper" plural would be "cactopodes."
@@seabassthegamer6644 no
Pus means foot, podes feet
Cactus is Latin looking to me, even if it comes from Greek
Def not cactopodes
@@HUNKragor oh ok. Makes sense. I think the English spelling of cactus comes from Latin, so it makes sense that someone would think it looks Latin.
My 4 years old brother makes exact same thing. He knows 4 letters and writes all in mirror
druh!
Lemme guess.
D. E. P and T
What vox used it
@@tospsy B N E L
Hes doing pretty good! At 26 years old he will have learned the whole alphabet!
Vox: usually children up to 7 do this.
Me: not relatable.
Milagros Gabriela Vargas right? Are they dyslexic or something? I was writing properly when i was 4 and i remember having a reading contest with a friend at the book bin.
"Up to"
@@coreblaster6809 vox said that
@@hashbites Yeah. That's what they said. "Up to" means that it's possible until 7. Not that everyone does it until 7.
@@coreblaster6809 ohhh thanks for giving the meaning of what you said
Whenever I read cartoons I have to ask myself: is this american or japanese😅 right or left
Me too! Especially annoying since I’m Swedish, so I read comics from Europe too, and when panels are in different sizes they are read differently in European comics compared to American comics. Let’s say that the panels are two on top of each other and to the right of them is a long panel the same length as the two on the left together. In European comics that would be read top left panel -> right panel -> bottom left panel, but in American comics it would be read top left panel -> bottom left panel -> right panel.
really big problem when reading /illegal/ mangas like bananafish. on the site i used it started right to left and later on it went left to right bruh-
@@ksub91 Belgian comics I used to read often used little arrows to disambiguate the order of the panels in situations like that. (Similar to these arrows ⇨ ⇩ ⇦ but drawn as part of the outer border of the panel.)
I used to write b and d backwards
Lol good one
Always spelt dog as bog. They tried explaining but it never workeb.
Oh my dab
@@AridChannelOfficialSG OOOOOOOOOOOH
@@annika4131 trieb*
0:31 when I was in first grade, there is no way that I could have written backwards in Chinese.
Does Chinese look the same whether you wrote backwards?
Irish Eggs no, but in order to properly write, you have to know the character, and from day one we are taught the radical starts from the left, and then the rest on the right. So i guess it’s more difficult to be flipped compared to english since its more complicated
@@CatholicWeeb no
Chinese is pure mess. In 送 you write 关 first.
@@AridChannelOfficialSG it is not a mess, the strokes all have a very logical order, but like for everything else, it's just a matter of getting used to it and learning
I am dyslexic and left handed when I was small I started at the back of the book and wrote right to left and usually in mirror writing. Still today when browsing a book I start at the back working forwards is natural to me, maybe that is just being left handed. I also have to consciously think about what is left and right its not instinctive. However, I knew for certain the apple symbol, and the statue of liberty questions without thinking, except working out which the correct word would be to describe it.
Well reading from left to right is quite arbitrary, in Chinese you read from right to left and up to down
@@goldogwolly Not really, Chinese was originally left to right for thousands of years and then switched to right to left around the time of the Shang dynasty. Ever since the cultural revolution its been left to right and up to down/horizontal.
@@goldogwolly Most of the Chinese scripts I read are from left to right,but some older ones goes the opposite way.
@@goldogwolly Egyptian hieroglyphs can be written left to right, right to left or top to bottom.
i read a book from mid to front and back to mid sometimes in an erratic manner. I am too lazy to be curious.
The lack of directional identity in nature is also why many videos can be played in a "flipped" orientation (usually to avoid copyright strike) without the viewer feeling too odd (until, of course, when something with written letters appear on screen).
One of the best videos I've seen from Vox (and I saw more than I'm comfortable admitting): super interesting and yet simple and straight to the point, not over done. Congratulations!
Kids write things backwards because they are little evil monsters.
Speakin' truth out here
Very much a quarantine comment
Do you mean live?
The torch is in the right hand.
Thank you GTA 4, a great educational game.
To be honest I’m not kidding you, I’ve literally never done this, I remember seeing a few of my friends in kindergarten do it but I never understood why.
Same
@@vesk4000 neither have I so I don't get it.
@KrunkerSlaker ynnuf yrev ahahahaH
Well, I did sometimes write letters wrongly when I was about two but by the time I was in school at 4 I’d stopped
Because your not special
This makes so much sense. I've been movie obsessed since I was a kid. What almost always happens is that I'll remember shots crystal clearly in my head, but when I re-watch the movie I find that my brain flipped the shots laterally for some reason. I've never understood why this is a thing, but this video clears it up quite well. Cool stuff. Thanks.
Holy look at her kindergarten writing! 0:27
I couldn’t write Z and S when I was little. I usually wrote them backwards
Omg I love this! My parents told me I had dyslexia and made me practice harder... and now I know it’s normal!
The Statue of Liberty & Apple Logo questions were surprisingly easy for me to recall, especially the Apple Logo one, I get a new iPhone every year🥴
Waw
I'm impressed
My son did this. Drove me nuts. He's in grade 2 now and doing it less often. Just remember every kid is different so don't compare your kids and love them all equally!
I used to just Write full sentences completely backwards
Do you ever think about how the word “right” isn’t just a direction but another way of saying “correct” but the opposite of the direction “right” is the direction “left” but the word “left” is NOT another word for “incorrect” or “wrong”. The word “left” is however used like this “ there were only 2 cupcakes LEFT.” 🤷♀️
This video was WAY more interesting than it had any right to be. 😂
I always wait for the:
*And then there’s this....*
I'm 37 years old and I still do this. Just swapping p & b occasionally when writing or typing which is stranger. No other quirks so I'm perfectly happy.
i have no idea why, but i used to always write 5 and 6 the wrong way around as a kid
I remember that I wrote my name normally, except the first letter (J), which was backwards
They just don’t won’t the teachers to see it and get confused
want*
YGS every Friday
Am I the only one who never has done this?
Or as far as I know at least...
You'll have done this at least once.
omg I did this as a little kid and never knew why.
I've noticed this so much with my little brother whos 7yrs. I was thinking that he may be dyslexic if it continued. But I definitely wasnt gonna rush to label him too soon, but this helps a lot knowing its pretty normal and it likely to pass.
They were all squggliy lines to me, Mom & Dad had different writing styles, so I decided to draw.
Then since engineering class I've been writing in ALL CAPS.
"You have to learn that, in English, script goes from left to right." And also, ignore the letters altogether and follow obscure rules for pronouncing words that render more anarchy than actual order, and you get things like hors d'oeuvres, the fact that the L in colonel is an R, and the f, o, and r in "comfortable" are totally silent.
Hors d'oeuvres is french
@@lavenduhhh So is the word "orange," genius.
@@dnyalslg
No need to be so snarky. The way you phrased it implied that you didn't know.
In American English, at least, comfortable has all its syllables pronounced. The difference is that the -or- sound has migrated and comes after the -t- sound, which makes it comf-ter-ble. Really the only sound that's missing is the -a-. This transposition of sounds/syllables is called metathesis.
@@weirdofromhalo i say comf TA bul usually xD
Improper english?
Thats how I've always pronunced it usually.
I'm I the only one who's never experienced this?
Same
I might be one that never written backwards
Same here, there's a reason they said "almost all kids" in the video.
I still do this sometimes but that's because of dyslexia
I'm an adult and I still write letters backwards, I'm a failure in life!
I used to do that with reading the slogan on milk cartons: "rekkel dijtla", or better known as "altijd lekker", Dutch for "always tasteful"
my son likes writing german with the dutch alphabet when Kleine = Kleijne and vor=voor and mixes it up with the backward cyrillic alphabet
@@PHlophe kleijne isn't Dutch lol
@@soupeo_o7971 Klijn i know. so wie mijn ist eingentlich meine
klein is both correct in Dutch and in German, Kleijne is just my surname 😉
I think that's the equivalent of the german "allzeit lecker" or "immer lecker".
but I wrote letter upward ;)
I remember always getting e, b, d, and 3 backwards. I probably did other ones but those took me so long to correct that I still remember it.
When I was a kid, I had the hardest time telling the difference between d, b, p, and q. They looked like mirrored versions of each other. I would get stressed as my mother made me work out the difference.
I used to write the letter m backward. oh wait...
ɯ
I'm the only one who didn't write like that as a kid?
No, I also never wrote like that either.
Me neither. Must be those new English stuff they teach in schools.
My daughter used to write her name backwards. My son didn't. But I think it's pretty common so see the occasional inverted letter in kids' writing.
I live my entire life backwards.
0:42 ЛОХ
Nice logo, SYKABLYAT!
Until the end of first grade, I wrote all my lowercase y's backwards. It became such a problem that it got its own slip on my spelling ring. No one else in my class had this, though. At least, not that I ever knew of.
0:47 fellow colour grapheme synesthetes, we all struggled here
During ancient times writing backwards was normal, you can see that in decorated clay pots.
There are still languages that are written opposite to english.
And I wouldn't say they are backwards, especially since those languages came first and are still used today.
Maybe english is backwards..
@@jayjohnson8403 I was talking about the Etruscan Alphabet, the forefather of the Latin Alphabet, not the English language itself. They wrote both left to right and right to left.
@@jayjohnson8403 No, actually backwards, as in one line in one direction and the next line in the opposite direction with characters mirrored. It's called boustrophedon. A lot of early Greek, Etruscan and even Latin is written boustrophedon.
@@jayjohnson8403 I think he meant that the script was sometimes written RTL and sometimes LTR
@@Quintinohthree yep.
Me,17, still flipping numbers and letters at random: ooops
samee
Same here. Sometimes it just seems to natural that they go that way but you later realise they were flipped.
Isn't that called dyslexia
@@Arkegox Is it? I always thought dyslexia was more of a reading issue but I haven't really read up on it.
still remember back in the day at kindergarten i couldn't tell the difference between the number 6 and 9, well same as b and d too
We started book vlogs with the kids to improve their reading and comprehension. It has done wonders on vocab skills!!
*Me playing along with which side is the Apple bite on*
*Sneakily looks at back of iPad*
I was writing "R" letter backward before. :d
Я
Ja, ja
⠀
⠀
⠀
Translation: Yes, я
*KoRn wants to know your location*
What I have never done that in my life
Finally! I've been thinking about mirror generalization for a while now without knowing what it was called. I was trying to understand why I never seemed remember the side a feature of an object was on and why it seemed that handedness was so arbitrary. For me, it makes studying stereochemistry very challenging because of the 2-D way we draw chemical structures.
I got all those left/right questions right because I don't see things like that at all. I can't verbally say if an arrow is facing left or right, but I remember it visually.
Iɟ ʎon ɔɐu ɹǝɐp ʇɥıs ɔoɯɯǝuʇ ʎon’ɹǝ ɐ ɓǝuıns
i can do this
Me too
I literally screamed "I did this too! I did this too"!)
0:41 Ха-ха, это ж надо :)
Once I drew a girraffe and wrote oom because I was 3 and thought giraffes were fancy cows
When I was 20, I taught myself to write backwards, read backwards and - bonus - read upside down. I did this because I'm left-handed and I felt that it was more natural for me to be writing backwards, from right to left, rather than forcing myself into a right-handed world. All I'm left with is a quirky party trick!