I am looking for a word for sentences which read the same forwards and when the order of words is reversed?
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about palindromes, in which individual characters are reversed. I’m thinking, instead, of sentences where the characters within words are left alone and the order of the words itself is reversed, for example:
That is that.
After some research I found out that this could either be called a palindrome, (This would be used when you want all letters to be the same when read backwards, even though I do believe this rarely occurs in sentences), or a palingram (This would be used when the letters themselves do not matter). Ofcourse, in both cases the meaning of the sentence should be the same when read backwards.
I hope this helped you out a bit more.
I believe those are called palingrams.
While palindrome is an option, palingram seems the broader of the two terms, including both reversible letters and reversible words. I am still looking for a somewhat authoritative source to substantiate others who have expressed this view on their own websites, including:http://theenglishdrivenlife.weebly.com/1/previous/2.html and http://www.rinkworks.com/words/palindromes.shtml.
