Is there a word for...

flogen

... a sentance that makes sense both ways, but isn't a palendrome (as in it means 2 different things depending on which way the words are)?

rough example:

I did.
did I?

or:

Afar from home.
Home from afar.

You know what I mean?

Flogen

simu

Look here:

http://www.opundo.com/wordrow.htm

Palingrams are sequences of letters, syllables or words that read the same backwards as forwards.

Victor

"Unclear"?

flogen

thanks simu, but I'm looking for a word to describe a sentence (or string of words, such as my example below which would be the end of a sentence and the beginning of another) which reads differently backwards..... such as:

...Start the process. this is Never Ending......
.....Ending? Never!! Is this process the start........?

I know the two sentences arent totally different, but they are layed out different, and so on.

flogen

simu

How about this?

semordnilap noun [C] a word, phrase or sentence which can be read in reverse with a different meaning

semordnilapic adjective

From here!

simu

With regards to semordnilaps, I'm not sure if the words can be treated as indivisible units though.

“deliver no evil” and "live on reviled" would seem to be a purer version of a semordnilap but as far as I can see, the definition apples to your sample sentences too.

flogen

nice one simu, that seems to be bang on what I was looking for... I'd say it applies to whole words rather than individual letters, just like palingrams...:d

thanks again,

flogen