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You mean, lightning bugs? { Starting a regional dialect flame war } Map showing which term (or both) are used across the United States: https://homegrown.exte

You mean, lightning bugs? { Starting a regional dialect flame war } Map showing which term (or both) are used across the United States: https://homegrown.extension.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Firefly-vs-lightning-bug-dialect-map_Homegrown-NC-State-Extension.jpg https://homegrown.extension.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021...

dontbenebby 4y ago
The title in my inbox mentioned that term, but I got it via the newsletter, so I don't know if everyone saw that... phrasing[1] :-) [1] The above is a very local reference to a very well known Archer meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0 (I had a coauthor who'd make sweeping proclamations like "we do not use the word 'seminal paper' in this laboratory around the time they had to stop calling it ISIS on the show... due to the rise of ISIS, which, according to Wikipedia is " a Salafi jihadist group and former unrecognised proto-state"[1], but I'm not an expert on... natsec stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation)
- jvanderbot 4y ago
  What is going on in this comment? Have you had too much or too little coffee today, sir/madam?
  - rustyminnow 4y ago
    I'll bet they are interacting with hnews through some sort of 3rd party client, and meant to reply to some other thread and something got borked
    - dontbenebby 4y ago
      I used to use Reddit a lot, still adjusting to HN culture. Also, too much caffeine and no weed, so all I can do is amp up, then wait. (I looked into MMJ, but the dispensaries are pretty unprofessional, it's why I think it should be recreational, they still act like cartel members.)
swayvil 4y ago
They're 2 different things. Different bug. Different glow color. Different arrangement of the glowpods. Lightning bugs in florida, fireflies in the north. At least in my experience. There are also worms that glow.
- lbotos 4y ago
  https://www.prevention.com/life/a36677874/firefly-vs-lightning-bug-differences/ https://www.prevention.com/life/a36677874/firefly-vs-lightni... What's the two species? As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid.
  - adamc 4y ago
    Both terms were in wide use in the Chicago area.
  - dontbenebby 4y ago
    >As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid. Lighting bugs mostly in 412 as well (Am I East Coast? Appalachian? Midwest? Mid atlantic? I've started just saying 412 rather than get hung up on semantics)
- reportingsjr 4y ago
  Firefly and lightning bug are 100% interchangable here in Kentucky/Ohio, both referring to the same group of glowing beetles.
  - swayvil 4y ago
    There's this beetle that glows greenish. From 2 panels on its abdomen. And this other, much squishier, beetle that glows yellowish. From basically it's whole backend. So that's 2, whatever you call them.
    - nanny 4y ago
      No, you're wrong. There are many, many species of beetles (thousands) that are called lightning bugs/fireflies. The terms are interchangeable, as they refer to any species in the entire family.
TheFreim 4y ago
Where I live everyone uses lightning bugs and fireflies interchangeably. Real arguments occur in the realm of duck duck grey duck VS duck duck goose.
- jaywalk 4y ago
  Who the hell calls it duck duck grey duck? I've literally never heard it called that before.
  - fluctor 4y ago
    It's a Minnesota thing.
    - dylan604 4y ago
      Of course it is dontchaknow
- dontbenebby 4y ago
  >Real arguments occur in the realm of duck duck grey duck Duck duck grey duck?. I normally strive for civility online, but I think you're lying and challenge you to a duel. To be clear, I'm joking about the duel, but seriously: who the heck says "duck duck grey"? Earlier today someone asked in another thread on this site if I had had too much coffee -- the REAL issue is that I'm out of weed so I can't ramp down from my flow state[-1], and it's been my experience in STEM that nothing is taboo if the context is romantic. (It really grinds my gears that there seem to be no limits to the fun some people will have at others' expense.[0]) Reminds me of when someone claimed I "press stalked" them when all I did was look up their address before going over to... uh... "date" them, because I wanted to check they weren't just luring me out of my safe house to kill me, and every search engine I tried turned up basically no hits on that phrasal verb[1]. The difference is I tend to do it all under one nym, while others hide their inanity[2]. Anyways, in all seriousness: is Duck Duck Grey real? Or some virtual snipe hunt[3] you made up like the type they'd send Boy Scouts like me on in the 2000s just before the organization went bankrupt? :-) [-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Challenges_to_maintaining_flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Challenges_t... [0] Die Schule war im Sommer so lange aus, der CFAA-Timer abgelaufen, und ich spreche immer noch kein Französisch :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb [2] Note the lack of an S if you want to pick apart my phrasing here, in this context. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inane#Italian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inane#Italian [3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snipe_hunt#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snipe_hunt#Noun Edit: Still re-learning the formatting, and trying to look at cheat sheets less, edited to make the citations not be all on one line.

dontbenebby 4y ago

The title in my inbox mentioned that term, but I got it via the newsletter, so I don't know if everyone saw that... phrasing[1] :-) [1] The above is a very local reference to a very well known Archer meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLWrKh2fB0 (I had a coauthor who'd make sweeping proclamations like "we do not use the word 'seminal paper' in this laboratory around the time they had to stop calling it ISIS on the show... due to the rise of ISIS, which, according to Wikipedia is " a Salafi jihadist group and former unrecognised proto-state"[1], but I'm not an expert on... natsec stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation)

jvanderbot 4y ago
What is going on in this comment? Have you had too much or too little coffee today, sir/madam?
- rustyminnow 4y ago
  I'll bet they are interacting with hnews through some sort of 3rd party client, and meant to reply to some other thread and something got borked
  - dontbenebby 4y ago
    I used to use Reddit a lot, still adjusting to HN culture. Also, too much caffeine and no weed, so all I can do is amp up, then wait. (I looked into MMJ, but the dispensaries are pretty unprofessional, it's why I think it should be recreational, they still act like cartel members.)

swayvil 4y ago

They're 2 different things. Different bug. Different glow color. Different arrangement of the glowpods. Lightning bugs in florida, fireflies in the north. At least in my experience. There are also worms that glow.

lbotos 4y ago
https://www.prevention.com/life/a36677874/firefly-vs-lightning-bug-differences/ https://www.prevention.com/life/a36677874/firefly-vs-lightni... What's the two species? As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid.
- adamc 4y ago
  Both terms were in wide use in the Chicago area.
- dontbenebby 4y ago
  >As someone who grew up in the northeast I called them lightning bugs as a kid. Lighting bugs mostly in 412 as well (Am I East Coast? Appalachian? Midwest? Mid atlantic? I've started just saying 412 rather than get hung up on semantics)
reportingsjr 4y ago
Firefly and lightning bug are 100% interchangable here in Kentucky/Ohio, both referring to the same group of glowing beetles.
- swayvil 4y ago
  There's this beetle that glows greenish. From 2 panels on its abdomen. And this other, much squishier, beetle that glows yellowish. From basically it's whole backend. So that's 2, whatever you call them.
  - nanny 4y ago
    No, you're wrong. There are many, many species of beetles (thousands) that are called lightning bugs/fireflies. The terms are interchangeable, as they refer to any species in the entire family.

TheFreim 4y ago

Where I live everyone uses lightning bugs and fireflies interchangeably. Real arguments occur in the realm of duck duck grey duck VS duck duck goose.

jaywalk 4y ago
Who the hell calls it duck duck grey duck? I've literally never heard it called that before.
- fluctor 4y ago
  It's a Minnesota thing.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    Of course it is dontchaknow
dontbenebby 4y ago
>Real arguments occur in the realm of duck duck grey duck Duck duck grey duck?. I normally strive for civility online, but I think you're lying and challenge you to a duel. To be clear, I'm joking about the duel, but seriously: who the heck says "duck duck grey"? Earlier today someone asked in another thread on this site if I had had too much coffee -- the REAL issue is that I'm out of weed so I can't ramp down from my flow state[-1], and it's been my experience in STEM that nothing is taboo if the context is romantic. (It really grinds my gears that there seem to be no limits to the fun some people will have at others' expense.[0]) Reminds me of when someone claimed I "press stalked" them when all I did was look up their address before going over to... uh... "date" them, because I wanted to check they weren't just luring me out of my safe house to kill me, and every search engine I tried turned up basically no hits on that phrasal verb[1]. The difference is I tend to do it all under one nym, while others hide their inanity[2]. Anyways, in all seriousness: is Duck Duck Grey real? Or some virtual snipe hunt[3] you made up like the type they'd send Boy Scouts like me on in the 2000s just before the organization went bankrupt? :-) [-1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Challenges_to_maintaining_flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Challenges_t... [0] Die Schule war im Sommer so lange aus, der CFAA-Timer abgelaufen, und ich spreche immer noch kein Französisch :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal_verb [2] Note the lack of an S if you want to pick apart my phrasing here, in this context. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inane#Italian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inane#Italian [3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snipe_hunt#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snipe_hunt#Noun Edit: Still re-learning the formatting, and trying to look at cheat sheets less, edited to make the citations not be all on one line.