Postaday for January 28th: Play Lexicographer. Create a new word and explain its meaning and etymology.
A palintext is a context created such that a particular word has the same meaning when spelled backwards. For example, consider the following sentence:
He worshiped a canine.
With this sentence, a dog is a god.
The water coursed through the moldy pipes, a lupine creature darting through a forest.
With this sentence, a flow is a wolf.
The word palintext is an example of a portmanteau, a word created by fusing two words together, to create a meaning that combines the words’ meanings. In this case, palintext is a portmanteau of palindrome and context. A portmanteau can be considered a neologism.
Sometimes the creation of a palintext requires the creation of a neologism. For example:
I created a creature that scans for small objects for the purpose of retrieving them, specifically small spherical objects that have been thrown some distance. I did this by way of repeated conjoinings of somewhat similar creatures, until I achieved a creature with four legs, a longish snout, and short hair in either blonde, brown, or black. The scanning is not unlike radar, and since the small objects retrieved are balls, that roll, I call this creature a rolled radar ball retriever, or rodarbal for short. My wife insists on calling it a Labrador retriever. But then, she’s insane, and requires medication.
In the above, rodarbal is a neologism and a portmanteau. A word created in this way merely for the sake of creating a pallintext is porpalmanogism.
In so far as most pallintexts are terrible, all portpalmanogisms are truly awful, and their creators should be, at the very least, insulted repeatedly, perhaps even burned at the stake.