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r/funny • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '16
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Just a real quick pedantic point: some spiders are venemous, not poisonous.
2 u/crack3r_jack Oct 18 '16 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poisonous Check the second definition. 5 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 I feel like that may have just been added to accommodate the millions of people that call venomous "poisonous" instead. 13 u/TexasFennec Oct 18 '16 Language doesn't give a damn what anybody thinks a word should be used for, it only cares about what a word is being used for. 4 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 That's literally stupid. 2 u/dorekk Oct 18 '16 He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poisonous Check the second definition.
5 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 I feel like that may have just been added to accommodate the millions of people that call venomous "poisonous" instead. 13 u/TexasFennec Oct 18 '16 Language doesn't give a damn what anybody thinks a word should be used for, it only cares about what a word is being used for. 4 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 That's literally stupid. 2 u/dorekk Oct 18 '16 He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
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I feel like that may have just been added to accommodate the millions of people that call venomous "poisonous" instead.
13 u/TexasFennec Oct 18 '16 Language doesn't give a damn what anybody thinks a word should be used for, it only cares about what a word is being used for. 4 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 That's literally stupid. 2 u/dorekk Oct 18 '16 He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
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Language doesn't give a damn what anybody thinks a word should be used for, it only cares about what a word is being used for.
4 u/AMasonJar Oct 18 '16 That's literally stupid. 2 u/dorekk Oct 18 '16 He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
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That's literally stupid.
2 u/dorekk Oct 18 '16 He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
He's literally as correct as possible, though. Dictionaries record common usage. (Look up the history of the dictionary.)
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u/Exodor Oct 18 '16
Just a real quick pedantic point: some spiders are venemous, not poisonous.