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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I just came across a Craigslist posting that tickled the egg-corn area of my brain The seller is advertising their “radial-arm saw” as a “radio-arm saw” as follows:
“Craftsman 10” Radio Arm Saw & Cabinet – $65”
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That’s a cute substitution. I’m not sure there’s a plausible meaning connection that would allow us to call it an eggcorn. What would a perp be visualizing or assuming as the reason for the term “radio-arm”?
Welcome to the Eggcorn Forum, hesperian!
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A possible motivation could be the association of radio with (high?) tech?
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Probably about 25 years ago here in Mexico taxis with CB radios were ubiquitous, and advertised themselves as Radio Taxis , A relative few (but still quite a few), trying to project a higher-tech image, started calling themseves Video Taxis .
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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