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

Staving Adam Walker:
>--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> > So, does no-one have a word for these things in
> > their conlang?
>
>Well, before I could make a name for doodlebugs in
>Carrajena I'd need to know if they exist in
>Tunisia/Algeria/Lybia.  then I'd need to know the name
>for the doodlebug in the various European Romance
>dialects and also (perhaps) a Semitic root.  I think
>doodlebugs will never have a name in C-a.
>
>My other languages are spoken by extraterrestrials and
>thus have no need whatsoever for doodlebugs.
I'm used to "doodlebug" meaning the V1, an early form of cruise missile,
used by the Germans to attack London in the closing stages of the Second
World War.

Pete

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