Talk:A Much Needed Talk/@comment-24573226-20170202213702/@comment-25936766-20170203002242

@Chish: Again: If Venom and Poison were truly so different, why not use Envenomed instead of Poisoned when you are injected with a venom?

The excuse of people not knowing it is faulty. It's literally En-Venom-Ed. Almost-exactly as the case with Poison-ed. It's the same as people adding -ed to stuff to say one got X by that stuff, or suffered that stuff.

It's different from "Defenestrate", which doesn't even bring to mind the act it means unless you know what it means.

Hell, at the very least, people could use "Venomed". But nope, they use Poisoned.

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Chish, read your posts. You sound almost like a broken record. You've been arguing with the same arguments for an hour by now, with pretty much no variation. And that argument is: "Venoms are injected and Poisons are not >:(". That has been your entire argument, and you repeating it with little variation makes me think you're not even listening to me.

I've pointed out the definitions of both Poison and Venom, and mentioned the technical difference between Venom and other kinds of Poisons, along with how, even formally, that technical difference isn't always taken to-the-letter.

Venom is Poison. Poison includes Venoms. They are literally the same thing, the only difference is the delivery method, and that Venom is made specifically by animals.

So, like I've said 4 times by now: '''Why bother? They mean the same thing, both work perfectly fine'''.

I'm not saying "don't go with it". I'm saying, why bother changing it when both work? What's the phrase...."If it's not broken, don't fix it"?

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By the way, you keep mentioning how "one can drink myriads of venom and be perfectly fine because it must be injected!". Sources?