Comment on Venom vs Poison
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months agoThe 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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We say poison tipped arrows, not venom tipped arrows, so there’s at least one example of the words being interchangeable.
5too@lemmy.world 2 months 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!