came across the word while reading a great nytimes article on the O.E.D and neologisms. hope that link works. if not, try googling for "Cyber-Neologoliferation." excerpt:
"I'm too embarrassed to ask the lexicographers if they have a favorite word. They get that a lot... Fiona McPherson gives me mondegreen. A mondegreen is a misheard lyric, as in, 'Lead on, O kinky turtle.' It is named after Lady Mondegreen. There was no Lady Mondegreen. The lines of a ballad, 'They hae slain the Earl of Murray,/And laid him on the green' are misheard as 'They have slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen.' 'A lot of people are just really excited by that word because they think it's amazing that there is a word for that concept,' McPherson says."
and a mondegreen is exactly what "teleber" is.
*eraserheard: after the band eraserheads. i picked up the term from a magazine and thought it was funny and apt. it insinuated itself into my vocabulary and it'll probably stay there, regardless of my mondegreen-mindedness.
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