• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    6 hours ago

    Bone-apple-tea was the name of a community that was dedicated to the phenomenon of people attempting to use words and phrases in writing that they had clearly only learned phonetically, resulting in funny mondegreens.

    The eponymous example was the French “bon appétit” that someone had always assumed was an English phrase: “bone-apple-tea.”

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Yes. I’m aware. It’s why I chose different words than the comment above mine.

      I need a jynnan tonnyx.