For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.

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    16 days ago

    “pseudo-anglicisms”. good examples are eye-shopping, relooking, face control and salaryman.

    their origins are interesting and colorful.

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      16 days ago

      Cool. Similar to anglicism. also, cognate comes to mind here since talking about words between languages.

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      15 days ago

      It’s sort of a relief that there’s a term for that and that it occurs in more places than just the Netherlands, because I thought I was going insane.