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8/17/2015 4:41:31 PM
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Hardly. Maybe in whatever country you live in. Not here in 'Murica. I'm 42 and never in my life have I ever heard anyone call it a tattoo machine. It makes it sound like you stop by Food Lion and get a dvd at Redbox, then swipe your credit card and stick your arm in the tattoo machine and get the #142 tiger dragon tattoo. It's a tattoo gun.
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Haha man it's just a word, like tape gun, or saying "whip" instead of car. Aspie.
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Really, huh I guess a professional apprenticeship was a waste of time then. So here in the United States it's called a gun, maybe ask Lyle Tuttle, or go to a large convention and ask some of the manufacturers. Go on I'll wait.
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Im covered, have tons of friends in the industry. While you are arguing semantics, i mostly hear it referred to as a gun.
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Does it even matter? You're both referring to the same thing. You both understood what he meant. this is now about a gun/machine debate and not about tattoos?
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You are right and I just get upset because it was drilled into my head. It is still about the tattoo and it is still pretty good!
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Or buying a few of those things that look like guns for the pool that shoot water, water machines.
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I understand some people (more so the people that rent out shops to get paid. Tattoo artists, or if you prefer, tattoo humans.) may refer to said device as a "tattoo machine", however a "tattoo gun" being used in reference to the device shouldn't be so uncommon that it requires grammatical correction. Even especially when someone makes a short statement, which is more than likely using actual slang terminology (it can usually be recognized when someone starts the sentence like "pulled out the.." Or maybe it'd been more noticeable had I said "Yep, I done went and pulled out the 'ol tattoo gun, yessiree! Why I sure did! That 'ol contraption, why I tell you, heh heh, sure did keep all thems varmints away last night makin' all that ruckus! Yep, it sure did I tell yeh. Yep.". However that was way too much to type. No offense but depending on who you are and what you like to refer to it as, neither are incorrect. It can be referenced to by either. But it doesn't sound very charismatic calling it that for me. I'll continue to say "gun" you can call it whichever you like. But it isn't incorrect either way so no need for corrections. No disrespect intended to you but I'm not fond of being corrected, especially when a tone of conversation can dictate many different aspects of dialect divarication.
