Homophonic Translation

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.