Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>Well, this is rather exciting. Seems that everybody
>has his own idea of what is a bug, and the semantic
>fields are various ! Some think they look like
>beetles, some assert that they creep or crawl, some
>include spiders but not flies nor mosquitoes, some
>think of flies as the archetyp for bugs, some talk
>about millipedes or scorpions, some think they are
>repulsive (by the way, I would incline to consider
>lady-birds as bugs, but to me they aren't repulsive at
>all; they're rather cute), some do the contrary.
>Webster decided that they are Heteroptera. Even
>crustaceans joined the band, that meaning that we
>crossed over the border between insects and other
>animals. We're far away from the original "punaise".
>
>So we should try to make a cartography of the fields
>that can be included in the concept of bug. Somebody
>really should write a thesis about it.
>
>
Well, the Conlang list is here.

I'm from the southeast of England - I'm of the opinion that a bug(apart
from a glitch in a computer program) is:

a) A disease, probably causing nausea(my primary, non-computer-related
usage)
b)A member of Heteroptera

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