You meet a group of aliens, and their language is just like English except that they say every word backwards. How will you learn to communicate with them?
Take a word in English that you would like to say, and turn it into language that these aliens will understand.
A string of a word in English.
A string of the reversed word that represents the original word translated into alien language.
howdy
ydwoh
If you flip howdy backwards you get ydwoh.