Comment on Venom vs Poison

Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You called?

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• LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you say the same thing about being envious and being jealous?

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  • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the way that language is commonly used, yes. People have been using it wrong for so long “jealous” has effectively become synonymous with “envious”. Even if I dislike and disagree with it being used this way.

    If someone is eating a donut and you say “I’m so jealous [of having the donut]” I’m fairly confident most everyone would understand you mean envious by definition but are using the word jealous to convey that meaning.

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    • hakase@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):

      “There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.”

      It’s always been synonymous with “envious”, as far back as we can trace.

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  • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And nauseous vs. nauseated.

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    • Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget literally and figuratively

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• SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You sound like the kind of person that thinks tomatoes are vegetables.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How dare you!

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• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless we’re talking about eating the snake. That could cause some confusion.

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• AEsheron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, but we can go even further beyond in pedantry. This distinction is only wxclusive when we’re talking about a living thing. When talking about the substances themselves, one is a subcategory of the other. A venomous snake is not poisonous, but a venomous venom is a poisonous poison.

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  • TechLich@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, and even when talking about living things it’s not a clear distinction.

    In biology, poison is a substance that causes harm when an organism is exposed to it. Venom is a poison that enters the body through a sting or bite. In a bunch of medical fields though, poisons only apply to toxins that are ingested or absorbed through the skin and that definition sometimes carries across to zoology.

    Venomous creatures are poisonous by most definitions because venom is a poison. But if the distinction is useful in a medical or zoological context then they’re not.

    tldr: The pedantry is totally pointless and mostly wrong.

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• Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe calling a Snake Poisonous

  But if you tell me a Frog is venomous I’m certainly going to misunderstand and get away from it asap

  Because funnily enough iirc there are actually venomous frogs that kill if they touch you

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A possibly important distinction is lost, though.

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait until you have to go out in the wilderness and eat snakes. Then you find a non-venomous snake with hypodermic poison.

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.

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