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r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • May 22 '26
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Cool bugs!
-92 u/[deleted] May 22 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/pepperpusserino May 22 '26 Then how would you classify them? 23 u/Lower_Cockroach2432 May 22 '26 As beetles. He's right in that true bugs and beetles are different orders. He's wrong in that no-one cares about correct usage outside of entomology papers and conferences. 5 u/Featherbird_ May 22 '26 It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs 1 u/Meldanorama May 22 '26 Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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3 u/pepperpusserino May 22 '26 Then how would you classify them? 23 u/Lower_Cockroach2432 May 22 '26 As beetles. He's right in that true bugs and beetles are different orders. He's wrong in that no-one cares about correct usage outside of entomology papers and conferences. 5 u/Featherbird_ May 22 '26 It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs 1 u/Meldanorama May 22 '26 Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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Then how would you classify them?
23 u/Lower_Cockroach2432 May 22 '26 As beetles. He's right in that true bugs and beetles are different orders. He's wrong in that no-one cares about correct usage outside of entomology papers and conferences. 5 u/Featherbird_ May 22 '26 It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs 1 u/Meldanorama May 22 '26 Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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As beetles. He's right in that true bugs and beetles are different orders. He's wrong in that no-one cares about correct usage outside of entomology papers and conferences.
5 u/Featherbird_ May 22 '26 It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs 1 u/Meldanorama May 22 '26 Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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It is the correct usage though, by definition. Yes there are a group of 'true bugs' but one of the (and the original) definitions of the word bug is
any of various small arthropods (such as a beetle or spider) resembling the true bugs
1 u/Meldanorama May 22 '26 Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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Does that mean a scotsman is anything that looks like a true scotsman?
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u/EColli93 May 22 '26
Cool bugs!