Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

Neil Armstrong of course is the first human being ever to have set foot on a celestial body other than earth. It is oddly appropriate, then, that the heteropalindrome (the semordnilap) of his name is: "Gnorts, Mr Alien." A palindrome is a word or phrase spelled the same way backwards and forwards.  Like the reputed book about Theodore Roosevelt: "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama".  The word "semordnilap" is "palindromes" spelled backwards. It is sometimes used for a different but related concept -- a word or phrase that spells one thing in another direction and another backwards. Like tang/gnat. Heteropalindromes means the same thing.  An example: Gnorts, Mr Alien.  I have to go now. 

I love a good headline.  And I don't mean by this the usual examples, "Headless Body in Topless Bar" and so forth. I mean headlines where there is a central word that doubles as both verb and adjective, especially when the meaning shifts. I vaguely recall an example that said something like this: "FBI Links Bomb Plot, Sleeper Cell." The writer of the headline presumably meant that the FBI had discovered facts that connected a bomb plot to a particular "sleeper cell." If you presume that "links" is a verb, that flows nicely. But what if it is an adjective, telling us something about the bomb plot? If the headline writer reads his paper's sports section now and then, he knows that "links" is often employed as a synonym for the sport of golf, or more specifically for the lay-out of a course. Thus, perhaps the FBI has created a deep undercover sleeper cell that plans a strike against somebody's favorite "links...