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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boneappletea is also an excellent term for a similar thing, where the "new" word or phrase makes no sense and is not plausible when used in the same context.

There will certainly be reasonable disagreements about which description is more apt in a given situation. One that comes to mind is Joey Tribbiani's use and explanation of "a moo point."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I’m just partial to eggcorn (term and concept).