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mhague@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Endmaker@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area

  You are a web developer looking for other web developers ;)

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’re going to need a link

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  • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a Google site so all that’s left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s your favourite?

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      • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Portia jumping spider! It’s such a crazy little machine.

        What about you?

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• Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are some spiders poisonous? Are all animals that are venomous also poisonous? Also I’d like to say that there is no linguistic difference between the two in some languages. There is no distinction between the two in German for instance. It’s either giftig or it isn’t.

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  • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    None that I know of. I think the OC was just mocking a bit on how some people can get so bent out of shape when the word is used colloquially.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s an unfortunate false cognate that the word Gift means poison in English.

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    • Username@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funnily there is also the word “Mitgift” (Dowry) that has nothing to do with poison at all.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same root though. In Dutch it wasn’t differentiated until recently so the same word has vastly different meanings between Afrikaans and Dutch. en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gifte#Middle_Low_German

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The word has been used as a euphemism for “poison” since Old High German, a semantic loan from Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “gift; dose of medicine”).

        I wondered how the heck it got that meaning. Pretty strange to apply a term for giving something in general to poison specifically.

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  • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is a distinction to make. For example some snake venom is not poisonous when traveling through your digestive system, and only becomes a problem when it enters the blood stream (usually from a bite).

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    • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think it matters in most contexts. When people are casually talking about it, venomous and poisonous are both stand-ins for “it has venom.” They’re not telling other people, “actually, don’t eat spiders.” I was just joking about the classic pedant line about spiders.

      But it does make a difference on paper. I’m curious how you would express this in German: A black widow is venomous and in theory a healthy human can eat a dead black widow with no ill effects.

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