• oni
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    322 months ago

    lmao, not an english native speaker here. What would be, in english language, the difference between poisonous and venomous? Lifting aside the “pois” and the “ven”.

    • Melochar
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      712 months ago

      Poisonous: will make you sick if you eat it. Venomous: will make you sick if it bites or stings you.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Not native English speaking neither but afaik:

      poisonous: you die if you eat it

      Venomous: you die if it bites you

    • @[email protected]
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      • If it bites you and you die: it’s venomous
      • If you bite it and you die: it’s poisonous
      • SkaveRat
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        152 months ago

        Bears are venomous and lava is poisonous. Got it

    • Zagorath
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      82 months ago

      I don’t speak Spanish, but just looking at the alternative options Google Translate provides when you only input a single word, it’s possible that “tóxico” might be a clearer translation of “poisonous”.

      • Canadian_Cabinet
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        72 months ago

        Tóxico is more or less analogous to toxic in English, it sounds normal to use with something like a chemical but weird with an animal

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      Poisons are ingested where as venoms are injected.

      If you bite (or drink, etc.) it it’s poison. If it bites (or stings, etc.) you it’s venom.

    • Canadian_Cabinet
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      52 months ago

      Hace un par de días teníamos esta misma discusión aquí, básicamente «poison» es si lo tocas y mueres. «Venom» es si te muerde y mueres. En español es más simple con veneno jaja

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Español cuenta también con “Ponzoñoso” (Poisonous ) para poder diferenciar. Pero en si, sólo son sinónimos y se utilizan igual.

        • oni
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          42 months ago

          Lo mismo me pasó hace unos años. En tumblr había un post donde mencionaban las diferencias entre un “raven” y un “crow”, pero ambos sabemos que la traducción directa de ambas palabras es “cuervo”

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              Raven — Cuervo
              Crow — Corneja
              Jackdaw — Grajilla

          • Daemon Silverstein
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            12 months ago

            Portuguese has no different word for them as well. Both raven and crow are translated as “corvo”.

          • @leftzero
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            Crow sería corneja, propiamente dicho… but everyone knows that ravens are just a big species of crow.

      • oni
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        Recalco en que no soy angloparlante porque busqué primero en un diccionario en inglés y aparecen como sinónimos, entonces para sacarme completamente de dudas, pregunto a angloparlantes, pero sigo en la misma situación

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      I was told that if something dies from poison and you eat it then it is dangerous. But if something dies from venom and you eat it you will be okay.

      • @[email protected]
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        Keep in mind that poisonous and venomous are only different in a scientific context. In regular conversation people use them to mean the same thing (or at least they use poisonous to mean both-- venomous is less used in casual contexts)

    • Daemon Silverstein
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      22 months ago

      In Portuguese we have the word “venenoso” for “poisonous” and “peçonhento” for “venomous” (i.e. something with a “peçonha”, any toxin substance produced and injected on another animal). But we often use “peçonhento” e “venenoso” interchangeably (e.g. “cobra venenosa”).