OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

[rzed]

Dane Jensen <careo at fastmail.fm> wrote in
news:mailman.2941.1169295400.32031.python-list at python.org: 

> On Friday 19 January 2007 22:51, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>> "Steven D'Aprano" <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> > Or perhaps I should say:
>> >
>> > .snoitnevnoc
>> > hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM
>> > ton ,puorgswen egaugnal hsilgnE na no er'ew ,segaugnal hcus
>> > era ereht fi neve tuB
>>
>> First I thought it was Welsh or Cornish or something.
>>
>> Then it was like being in my first year of school again-
>> reading letter by letter.  Never realised how difficult it is.
>>
>> I suppose it will improve with practice.
> 
> Not to steer this topic even futher off topic, but this is
> something that's been on my mind lately...
> 
> The biggest problem with it that the letters were forwards and
> not also backwards (and the parens). But then, it's my
> understanding that as a left-handed person, reading and writing
> backwards is far easier for me than for the majority that is
> right-handed. Have any other lefties found that the case? 

How would anybody know? As a left-hander, I have found it easy 
enough to read backwards, but then, being left-handed forces a 
certain habit of adaptability in any case. Maybe that makes it 
easier to read backward, but that is not a task I'm often called 
on to do. It takes practice regardless.

This subthread reminds me of my *highly secure* plaintext 
encryption system that would render the sentence

<But even if there are such languages, we're on an English 
language newsgroup, not Martian, and so we should (whenever 
possibly) adapt English conventions>

as 

<Sno itne vn ochsi lgn etpa daylbisso, pr'ev en eh Wdluohs 
ewosdnan aitramton, puo Rgswene, gau gn al hsilgn (enanoere 
wsegaugn) alhcu Seraere htfinevetub>

I think it looks vaguely Esperantonic (Esperantoid? Esperantic?), 
if anything. 

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rzed