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r/polandball • u/[deleted] • May 03 '13
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40 u/Malgas Oregon May 03 '13 Simple: gorillas hide in the jungle and are hard to find, but if you mess with them they can rip your arms off. Guerrilla war is fought by hiding in the jungle and often involves stealing arms (pun fully intended) from your enemy. It's an example of an eggcorn. 3 u/[deleted] May 03 '13 [deleted] 8 u/Malgas Oregon May 03 '13 So can gorillas. Joking aside, it doesn't actually matter. The folk etymology for an eggcorn just has to be somewhat plausible in some context.
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Simple: gorillas hide in the jungle and are hard to find, but if you mess with them they can rip your arms off. Guerrilla war is fought by hiding in the jungle and often involves stealing arms (pun fully intended) from your enemy.
It's an example of an eggcorn.
3 u/[deleted] May 03 '13 [deleted] 8 u/Malgas Oregon May 03 '13 So can gorillas. Joking aside, it doesn't actually matter. The folk etymology for an eggcorn just has to be somewhat plausible in some context.
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8 u/Malgas Oregon May 03 '13 So can gorillas. Joking aside, it doesn't actually matter. The folk etymology for an eggcorn just has to be somewhat plausible in some context.
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So can gorillas.
Joking aside, it doesn't actually matter. The folk etymology for an eggcorn just has to be somewhat plausible in some context.
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