Parrot phrasing
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A beautiful eggcorn spotted in the wild: parrot phrasing for "paraphrasing". I love it. I think I'm going to adapt it for making reference to particularly ignorant paraphrase that displays a birdbrained level of literacy.
The original version of this post earlier today called it a brand new discovery, and credited the discovery to Miriam Hardin. But although parrot phrasing does not appear to be in the the Eggcorn Database, it has figured in discussions in the Eggcorn Forum: here, for example.
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