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What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:20am On Jun 04, 2019 |
Have you ever heard someone sing the wrong lyrics to a song? Maybe a child gave the nursery rhyme"Row, Row, Row your boat" a new meaning by replacing the line "life is but a dream" with "life's a butter dream". A word or phrase resulting from mishearing another word or phrase (especially in a song or poem) is a common phenomenon known as MONDEGREEN typically sounds like the original phrase I.e they are homophonous but the meaning is often entirely changed with presumably amazing results. Where did the word mondegreen come from? So why do we call these misinterpretation mondegreens? The term is itself a mondegreen. Sylvia Wright, an American author, coined it after a phrase she recalled mishearing as a young girl. Wright reportedly believed the first stanza to "The Bonnie Earl O'moray" a 17th century ballad, featured two unfortunate aristocrats : Ye highlands and ye lowlands Oh, were have ye been? They have slain the Earl O'moray And lady Mondegreen The correct phrasing of the fourth line is "And laid him on the green". While Wright gave us a name for this phenomenon in 1954, people have been misinterpreting words and phrases since the beginning of speech. Culled from dictionary. Com You can add your own examples of mondegreens in music. |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Oluwasaeon(m): 11:23am On Jun 04, 2019 |
Sandalili sandalili comes to mind |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:26am On Jun 04, 2019 |
1 Like |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Oluwasaeon(m): 11:29am On Jun 04, 2019 |
Hintona:Me too, 2 years ago 2 Likes |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:01pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:02pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
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Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:06pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
what?what? |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:09pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
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Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 11:13pm On Jul 23, 2019 |
yeahsusu Heyyeah yeah yeah |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Oluwasaeon(m): 8:17pm On Aug 02, 2019 |
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Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Nobody: 6:23pm On Oct 23, 2020 |
Hintona:You copied this right? |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 6:52pm On Oct 23, 2020 |
YomyFreestyle: Yeah from a website dictionary.com |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Nobody: 8:43pm On Oct 23, 2020 |
Hintona:Lol ya lucky I didn't catch u |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 2:52pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
YomyFreestyle:I don't understand? |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Nobody: 2:58pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
Hintona:Refresh the thread, reread the quote and you will |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Wunna: 3:27pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
Hintona:This post kinda odd coming from a lady.. You must be a music enthusiast. Do you sing or trap? |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Hintona(f): 3:49pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
Wunna: I like music (who doesn't?) I sing but in a choir in a church. |
Re: What It's Called When You Misinterpret Lyrics by Wunna: 3:57pm On Oct 24, 2020 |
Hintona:Arh! Thought you were some upcoming songster with aspirations to advance in the nearest future.. Something like becoming the next badgirl riri |
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