Re:Google is funding the creation of software that writes lo...
by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:37PM
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Only slightly tangential, have you come across the term eggcorn[1] before?
I always get a chuckle out of thinking about it.
1. In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes called oronyms). The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease". -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
I always get a chuckle out of thinking about it.
1. In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect (sometimes called oronyms). The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn