noun🔗Share谐音误用，语音相似的错误，望文生义. An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses."My daughter's confusion of "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease" is a classic example of an eggcorn. "我女儿把 "alzheimer's disease (老年痴呆症)" 误说成 "old-timers' disease (老人们的疾病)"，这正是“谐音误用”的一个典型例子，也就是一种典型的“望文生义”错误。languagelinguisticswordcommunicationphoneticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
