Palindrome: Able was I ere I saw Elba

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Sep 13, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:

> 
> On 9/13/13 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>> Date:    Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:16:04 -0700
>> From:    Benjamin Barrett<gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Palindrome: Able was I ere I saw Elba
>> There is a palindromic-like video going around right now called =
>> "Translators are a Waste of Space" at =
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DUGYL5sUwr2Q&feature=3Dplayer_embedded.
>> 
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Seattle, WA
> Not really a palindrome because the text renders the opposite/inverse
> meaning when read backwards. (Yep, I note that you called it
> "palindromic-like".
> 
> (It's a brilliant piece of writing -- and reading -- still.)
> 
> ---Amy West

There are also a couple of grammatical oddities in the first half. Wikipedia mentions the "semordnilap" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome#Semordnilap), meaning a palindrome that spells a different word backward. BB
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