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BUR #58525 is pending approval.
mass update blowing_smoke (cigarette or smoking_pipe or id:8490246) -> exhaling_smoke -blowing_smoke
mass update blowing_smoke (finger_gun or gun) -> -blowing_smoke blowing_smoke_(gun)
deprecate blowing_smoke
create alias blowing_cigarette_smoke -> exhaling_smoke
Offshoot of topic #20625. Two different concepts semantically under the same confused tag. Same thing we did for blowing bubble gum vs blowing bubbles.
nonamethanks said in forum #436184:
Then how do you expect people to find posts of someone blowing smoke off a finger gun?
Regardless, blowing smoke should be split into exhaling smoke and blowing off the (real or imaginary) smoke from a (real or imaginary) gun. topic #35870.
like i wrote in the other topic, if there isn't smoke then you aren't "blowing smoke" regardless of whether the non-smoke is coming from inside your mouth or coming out of a gun or finger gun
in this case you are just blowing air. not smoke. smoke is grey-colored air.
putting the fact we'll end up with a "smoke" tag that doesn't imply smoke for some reason, i'm not sure if it's right to split these like this either.
we have blowing smoke on another for example that could mean either smoke from inside the mouth or smoke coming from an object. we could end up with a second split like exhaling smoke on another.
i think we should either have exhaling smoke as a subtag that implies blowing smoke or just have a separate blowing gun or blowing gun muzzle
post #6988347 and post #9567651 are both showing the action of blowing over a gun to dissipate its smoke after having used it.
The fact that you cannot see beyond the words of the sentence to understand that the tag is about an action and not the presence of the smoke itself is evidence not of a post being mistagged, but of your mental incompetence.
The tag might as well be called blowing over a fired gun, because that's what it's for.
