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Re:Google Fails the Turing Test by joshuacc on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @04:33PM (#5209707)
> cached phrases

I think you mean "catchphrases."

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Re:Google Fails the Turing Test by jmillikin on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @04:36PM (#5209726)
No, I specifically mean "cached phrases": http://lesswrong.com/lw/749/cached_phrases/
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Re:Google Fails the Turing Test by rafcavallaro on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @05:37PM (#5210062)
The fact that someone has a web page devoted to this particular eggcorn doesn't change the fact that it is an eggcorn: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4566
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Re:Google Fails the Turing Test by jmillikin on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @05:41PM (#5210076)
The fact that "cached phrase" has a similar pronunciation to "catchphrase" does not mean that they are related. In particular, this is not an instance of an eggcorn because substituting one for the other will result in a sentence that does not make sense. The quotes in the page you link to are instances of malapropism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism ).
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