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Only in America, and it rubs me wrong each time. Regardless of my feelings on local dialect, this is the title of an article on scientific advancement. They sho
by datameta 5y ago
Only in America, and it rubs me wrong each time. Regardless of my feelings on local dialect, this is the title of an article on scientific advancement. They shouldn't be taxonomically vague. It's misleading at best, clickbait at worst.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoIf you are going to be that picky then your original complaint was imprecise. Bug != insect. True bugs are hemiptera or possibly only heteroptera [1], bugs generally are any arthropods [2]. It's surely not useful word if you wanted to be precise. The word bug is taxonomically vague. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug
- datameta 5y ago"Insects are the largest group within the arthropod phylum" [0] So if colloquially any arthropod is a bug (which seems wrong to me) then any insect is a bug. To that end I can certainly agree that the word "bug" is a broad term and has different meanings contextually. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect
- Maursault 5y agoMe too, actually. There is a subset of the population that insists on misusing language, and the effect is that the meaning of words becomes diluted, confusing, leading to misunderstandings and horrendous flame wars. It's just senseless. What I don't understand is how it is possible that bacteria could so rapidly evolve a microphone and radio transmitter. What evolutionary pressures could have caused that?
- selimthegrim 5y agohttps://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/pdf/S1535-6108(02)00133-2.pdf https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/pdf/S1535-6108(02)00133-2.p...