From: | dghost@****.com dghost@****.com |
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Subject: | You people are starting to bug me (Was: Hi, honey! I brought home dinner!) ;) |
Date: | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:00:22 -0500 |
<robert.watkins@******.com> writes:
<SNIP>
>With all due respect to Webster's... that's a load of crap. ;)
Webster's did go on to include the colloquial definition but since I was
referring to the colloquial definition, I did not include it.
>"Bug" is a colloquial word. The colloquial usage of that word, as it
applies
>to animals, covers the full-range of creepy-crawlies, including insects,
>arachnids, millipedes, and centipedes. It is not a scientific definition
>based on the order of species, and if Webster has it as such, then the
>editors of that esteemed dictionary should go back to grammar school
(God
>knows that they can't spell... ;)
>
>In addition, Pix... the only species actually KNOWN as a bug is a
variety of
>lobster.
Eh. So?
>"sometimes referred to as...", Pix, that's why it's a colloquial
definition.
>:)
As I said, spiders are sometimes lumped under the heading of bugs.
However, that is incorrect. Uninformed people do not refer to spiders as
bugs. They are NOT bugs. Lobsters are not bugs. Crabs are not bugs.
Would you like me to continue? :)
--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel)
"Vampires have an oral fixation"
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