Homophonic translation renders a text written in one language into a near homophonic text in another language, usually making no attempt to preserve the original text's meaning. The English phrase sat on a wall, for example, can be rendered as the French s'etonne aux Halles, which sounds similar but means something else entirely. More broadly, the same technique of homophonic transformation can render a text into a near homophonic text in the same language, so that recognize speech becomes wreck a nice beach.
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Homophonic Translation (Wikipedia)
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Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text.
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