Continental kitting question

[reeny]

If, when you long tail cast-on you are actually knitting the stitches onto the needle, could you then also purl them on?

I experimented with this and I think it works, but I am still very green and I can't really tell if I am getting a correct purl, or a twisted purl.

The way that I did this was by doing it backwards, and going for the yarn under the fore