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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Replacing “gun” with “press” for example.

  Alternatively, caulker, stapler, nailer, gluer, tattooer, and finger pointers. Fingers also usually don’t launch projectiles I think. It’s just that gun culture is so embedded in your brain you couldn’t think of an alternative.

  Note how these are all construction tools, and construction is also usually worked by men there. Yet more traditionally feminine tools don’t get the “gun” additive; most will say spray bottle for example rather than spray gun, even though it also has a trigger (a literal gun-like one in some cases) and shoots out a projectile.

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think press works for Caulk and glue. Stapler is used already for the machine that sits on a desk as opposed to the hand held construction style. Finger pointers is certainly descriptive but when people do “finger guns” the thumb usually mimics the hammer action. What else are they miming? Am I so inundated with gun culture I was unable to think of another use for the thumb?

    I think bottles were around before firearms but Staple, nail and Caulk guns were not.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re both staplers - one’s just manual and the other isn’t.

      Spray bottles did not exist before guns, no.

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      • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They both put staples into things but they aren’t really interchangeable functionally. It makes sense to distinguish them depending on the context.

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      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kartuschenpresse aka cartridge press

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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool thx

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• moncharleskey@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is my perspective as an American looking in. In other languages there may be terminology used for these items that do not reference firearms.

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am curious if there is a language that calls a nail gun not a gun

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    • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cloueuse pneumatique

      Or pneumatic nailer

      I don’t think any of those things are referred to as a gun in French. Just essentially “stapler”, “nailer”, “gluer”, ect

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      • JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I might be biased by the question but I spontaneously thought of “pistolet à clous” as the most common term (which indeed translates to nail gun)

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    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Amazon and their copycats seem to be calling them ‘nailers’, probably because it’s easier to filter out the constructive guns from destructive, prohibited ones. But Amazon is evil so it’s probably unrelated

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      • JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        To be fair on this one, based on actual functionality ‘air nailer’ or ‘power hammer’ is more accurate than ‘nail gun’’ anyway. Outside of movies, you can’t use it as a gun without enough modification that it’s no longer the same tool.

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