Removed the following example. To me, it appears to be just an example of Randomly Reversed Letters in direct reference to Dumb and Dumber; nothing else about the design suggests Russia/communism/USSR, and interpreting it as a dogwhistle just because the R is the only reversed letter seems like a stretch. If anyone has evidence that this was the intended meaning, feel free to re-add.
- A Republican billboard
◊ effectively warns voters against the 2016 Democratic frontrunners in terms of The Red Scare with the slogan "Left and Lefter" — turning the "R" in "lefter" around.
Just posting here to note that I was forced to delete the Literature folder. All the examples within were misuse, so there would have been nothing left inside.
Is there one in the beginning of the US Office season 7 episode "search committee: part one"? Creed seems to use one in his spelling of Business in creating an acronym from BOBODY. It looks like he is writing "BIZNИ..." which would indeed be the correct letter if he switched to Serbian partway through the word. Alternative, it could be a U, but it looks too narrow and pointy to be one.
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Are there any examples of the German "scharfes S" (ß) used in place of a B?
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Is not actually from Lyniezia
I wonder if there are any inversions using the Roman alphabet in Cyrillic, Greek or other alphabet-using countries?
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I only recall one computer-related joke using inversion of this trope:
"Chaci6o, Bce pa6oTaeT!"
Which is transliterated line "Спасибо, всё работает!" (Thanks, all is running fine now!) This is a blatant lies because author's locale is obviously broken.
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No mention of Toys R Us? They famously use a backwards R in their logo.
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It's right there in the Cyrillic/Advertising section, mentioned as an aversion/non-example.
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Gah. Who re-wrote the main page with faux cyrillic? To anyone who uses the Cyrillic alphabet, this is now unreadable.
I also vote we remove the self-demonstratingness of the article. Keep the first sentence, sure, it serves as a point (though the pic does that too), remove it elsewhere. Yes, I'm way too lazy to do this, but I wouldn't do it without consensus anyway. So... who votes it should be rewritten with Latin letters?
More than a year later, I loved this when I saw it. My internal-voice actually read it with static.
Just to clarify, in the Type O Negative bit, someone says "Cyrillic doesn't have a letter shaped like "D". This is slightly misleading, since the cursive D in Cyrillic is just like an English capital D. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive
The article mentions the Greek letter delta (Δ/δ) being pronounced "th", but this is a bit misleading, as theta (Θ/θ) also is a "th" sound; "th" in English is actually for two sounds, "this" and "with". Delta is for the first one, theta is for the second. This could be especially confusing for those who read transcriptions of older Greek, which has delta for "d" sounds. In fact, delta is the predecessor to the Latin "D" and the Cyrillic "Д".
I just wanted this to explain why I changed the section on Greek a little bit. I'm not changing it much, just clarifying some stuff.
The pronunciation of Х says it’s pronounced the same as German hard ch; while that is true, the example word given (‘ich’) actually uses a _soft_ ch, which is quite unlike the hard ch. This should be changed to a more appropriate example like e.g. ‘Bach’ (as in, Johann Sebastian; but it’s an actual word, too).