I love playing with words and will requently reverse interesting ones in conversation. It’s annoying, I know.
When we were in college my then-girlfriend was assigned this essay without being told it was American backwards. She told me about it, but I didn’t see it written. The word “Nassirema”, as I heard it, wasn’t interesting backwards so I didn’t say anything.
She was given a test in a psyche course at UCI and she treated the essay as if it were actual anthropological research. She had no reason to believe otherwise. When she didn’t get the joke the professor downgraded her. She asked why and the answer was, well, you’re just supposed to know this osmotically. She successfully challenged the downgrade but complained to me afterward that I never bothered to reverse it while we chatted.
I still feel like an idiot almost 4 decades later.