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RE: Little guide to avoid typical mistakes when determining insects and other arthropods.

that confusing bugs with beetles is far from being a linguistic problem only.

Sure a valid point, but the thing is, that in English the word bug has this two ways of being used. Also in Germany there are a lot of people who have no clue about the different insects. May be they know a house fly and a wasp and a spider. But they won't call everything else Wanze, or Käfer. They might say Viecher (critters) or something like that.

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Then just let's say that calling everything a "bug" is the elegant way of English native speakers to 'solve' the problem not to know anything about insects (don't take that interpretation too serious). :)

Anyway, thanks for pointing out that phenomenon.

haha, elegant' - indeed. like one can use word 'gonna' and gave up and add any grammatical constructions he'd like to, afterwards
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lol