Because Enquiring Mines want to Kapow!

[bcholmes]

I know that a mondegreen is a misheard lyric. What do you call a misread sentence or phrase? Like, suppose you just read the phrase, "correlation is not castration"? What do you call that?

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[elainegrey]

Funny!

(Sorry, i am no help.)

[submarine_bells]

It's almost a malapropism, isn't it? Perhaps some special subclass of malapropism that needs its own name.

[firecat]

I don't know a noun to call it, but I've heard the process of misreading called "wacky-parsing".

[laura_seabrook]

I think it's still a Mondegreen. A lyric is a sentence, just sung. My favourite Mondegreen is from the Robert Palmer song Addicted to Love. Instead of "might as well face it, you’re addicted to love", it was heard "might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove".