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

--- Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> wrote:
> Constructed Languages List
> <CONLANG@...> writes:
> >I really am surprised by the rarity of woodlouse.
> >
> >You americans insist on calling everything that
> looks like an insect a
> >bug.  It's very silly ;-)
>
> Uhhh, no we don't.
Well, some of us do.  I do.

>
> Bugs are usually anything that look like beetles
> (from what i've seen
> people around me call them). A spider isn't a bug.
> Flies are flies,
> although we mistake crane flies for big mosquitos.
> We do call the
> Jerusalem cricket a bug, but that's because it looks
> less like a cricket
> and more like a beetle should.
Anything from a snail to a millipede, to a
grasshopper, to a tick, to an earthworm, to a fly, to
a bee, to a scorpion can be a bug.  Even a spider
*can* be.  Bug is a very general term for me.  It
includes any non-reptilian creepy-crawly thing.

Adam

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