oremoR nohJ, em llik tsum uoy, emag eht niw ot

I'm assuming we all know that the IoS says "To win the game, you must kill me, Jhon Romero." backwards. But the funny thing about the English language is, when a sentence is played in reverse, it can sound like a number of things. What a guy hears or thinks he hears if he tries to make sense of the backwards sentence (thinking it's normal sentence that's just really hard to understand for some reason) may vary from person to person.

So, what I want to ask is, when you heard the Icon say his Iconic lines for the very first time (or all the times before you knew what it actually was), did you try to make sense of it? What did you hear or thought the IoS was saying?

I personally thought he said, "You will die in my asterisk."
(I literally thought he said "asterisk")

"this thread smells bad" (c) IoS

I thought it was saying some kind of demonic spell or something like that, as to me it didn't have any sense or resemblance with known words.

I will lie in-bricks of the end of the ambush.

It sounded like a bunch of gibberish to me.

gaspe said:

I thought it was saying some kind of demonic spell or something like that, as to me it didn't have any sense or resemblance with known words.

This.

https://www.doomworld.com/vb/post/852943

"Terror die, even to the end of Nyeghul"

"I will die, even if the chicks have niggers."

"Hey you guy, please leave your name and number"

And you'll die in blink of the egg that never woof.

You forgot the "eht" between niw and emag.

He's clearly saying "Another one bites the dust"

I thought it said "Ia cthulhu fhtagn Yog-Soggoth Hast'r Ph-nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

"I will die, ingrates of heads of levouje"

Or something like that

"Derp life, people in the internet!"

"Em You Nigh Exim Vay The Nebules"

Gibberish.

I always thought it was just some random demonic talk.

I actually recorded "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" and put it in reverse but it didn't sound anything like it.

But now every 3:00am in the morning a floating decapitated head visits my room.

Chezza said:

But now every 3:00am in the morning a floating decapitated head visits my room.

Consider yourself lucky.

My wife is half-fish...

Chezza said:

I actually recorded "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" and put it in reverse but it didn't sound anything like it.

Try the opposite! Listen to "oremoR nhoJ, em llik tsum uoy, emag eht niw ot", record your attempt at pronouncing it, then reverse the audio. It results in pretty amusing drunk-like talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cYHp7CaXgQ

Chezza said:

But now every 3:00am in the morning a floating decapitated head visits my room.

Floating Decapitated Head said:

Nwod ti kcus ,hctib ym uoy edam I won!

Emboonigh! Eembully at the end of neigh!

I will nigh, embrace..... ED ROMERo

Funny because that's what I heard before I even knew who Romero was, much or less what it was backwards.

"Please leave a message after the tone"

embuzai embriexa gendemeruj

kram yrots a tahw

"Eng will die, eem nweh exxum negg nem nuh wooj"

LittleInferno said:

Gibberish.

Agreed. Sounded a bit like Darth Vader (with clogged sinuses) trying to read a Klingon restaurant menu.

"Remoo nohj, eem blixit, seh-weh nay thim theh wooj."

I don't even bother trying to parse it into proper English words. This is all I can hear anymore.