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What's a name for mistakes like in the following sentence: "time flies even faster as a parent"?
Requested edit to clarify where the error is: time as a parent is the subject in the sentence above, which was not the intended meaning. "Time flies even faster for a parent" or "For a parent, time flies even faster" would better communicate the intended meaning.
I think you're referring to an dangling modifier because time is not a parent. Of course, the implied identity of the parent is the speaker:
[I find that] time flies even faster as a parent [than it would otherwise].
That is,
I, as a parent, find that subjective time moves relatively fast.
"Time flies even faster as a parent." Has no errors in it. "Time flies" is a very familiar metaphor used when people communicate about how they feel about the passage of time.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
