Comment on Venom vs Poison

cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• cheddar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d take poisonous/venomous over German grammar.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Literally Gift or giftig.

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• Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same in Spanish. Veneno for both posion/venom.

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The fact that we’re having this discussion at all kind of proves that either English is losing the distinction, or it was never as clear a distinction as people sometimes make it out to be. Either way I’m fine with it because it doesn’t seem like a very useful distinction to make in everyday language, and you can sidestep it entirely by using a word like toxic instead.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We say poison tipped arrows, not venom tipped arrows, so there’s at least one example of the words being interchangeable.

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    • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah, if I remember right, those arrows use the poison from a tree frog, not something like a snake’s venom. So still poison!

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• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same in Norway with “gift”. Also, the same word is used for “married”.

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