Using Adventure and Venture in a sentence

[nq:1]Which would be a better word to use in this sentence... "Talking to you is a difficult venture" "Talking to you is a difficult adventure" thanks in advance.[/nq]
They mean different things. A venture is an experience; an adventure is an exciting and often challenging experience usually undertaken for the pleasure of achievement.

Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia

[nq:1]Which would be a better word to use in this sentence... "Talking to you is a difficult venture" "Talking to you is a difficult adventure"[/nq]
Cf. SW maxim: "omit needless words."
We do not see why either is preferable to:
"Talking to you is difficult."

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:1]They mean different things. A venture is an experience; an adventure is an exciting and often challenging experience usually undertaken for the pleasure of achievement.[/nq]
So which would be better to use? The disagreement involved the use of adventure as possibly being too extreme a word. Or that venture might not entirely make sense given the meaning of the sentence.

[nq:1]Cf. SW maxim: "omit needless words." We do not see why either is preferable to: "Talking to you is difficult."[/nq]
Because that would not convey the entirely meaning intended. The speaker saying the sentence wished to convey that talking to the other person would lead them both into a pointless debate.

[nq:2]"Talking to you is a difficult venture" "Talking to you ... why either is preferable to: "Talking to you is difficult."[/nq]
[nq:1]Because that would not convey the entirely meaning intended. The speaker saying the sentence wished to convey that talking to the other person would lead them both into a pointless debate.[/nq]
This message is not conveyed (to the ordinary English speaker

[nq:2]Because that would not convey the entirely meaning intended. The ... other person would lead them both into a pointless debate.[/nq]
[nq:1]This message is not conveyed (to the ordinary English speaker) by any candidate sentence yet suggested.[/nq]
The expression which comes to my mind is "A conversation with you is a hiding to nothing". If I had to provide a gentler alternative, I'd

[nq:2]Cf. SW maxim: "omit needless words." We do not see why either is preferable to: "Talking to you is difficult."[/nq]
[nq:1]Because that would not convey the entirely meaning intended. The speaker saying the sentence wished to convey that talking to the other person would lead them both into a pointless debate.[/nq]
Then why not say that?
In this context the connotations of "advent

[nq:2]They mean different things. A venture is an experience; an adventure is an exciting and often challenging experience usually undertaken for the pleasure of achievement.[/nq]
[nq:1]So which would be better to use? The disagreement involved the use of adventure as possibly being too extreme a word. Or that venture might not entirely make sense given the meaning of the sentence.[/nq]
So

[nq:1]In this context the connotations of "adventure" are too positive for such a sentiment.[/nq]
Would it work if the person was attempting sarcasm

[nq:2]In this context the connotations of "adventure" are too positive for such a sentiment.[/nq]
[nq:1]Would it work if the person was attempting sarcasm[/nq]
As long as that was clear. Sarcasm isn't always.

Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia