This Is Not A Bug

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It’s common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, it’s wrong to call other things bugs - right?
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- Bug: a small insect, or an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking.
- Entomology: the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
- Etymology: the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
- Insect: a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.
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@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 Год назад

I like using "bug" for any small critter of the sort, helps to not say insect incorrectly for spiders and stuff, while using "true bug" for, well, true bugs.

@BillySugger1965 Год назад

Why not use the word _thing_ for any old thing, just so you don’t have to bother getting the word right? 😂

@jimgsewell Год назад

@@BillySugger1965 Perhaps because most people are neither entomologists nor pedantic jerks

@Niko__01 Год назад

I do the same thing

@genio2509 Год назад

I just use bug for small critters be insects, arachnids, mollusks, and others. Insect for the "true bugs". And the same in Spanish, bicho for small critters and insecto for "true bugs". Before the video I didn't know bugs was a subcategory of insects. I will look if in Spanish too. Edit: Apparently not, bicho is free of confusion.

@thany3 Год назад

Same for fish. We tend to say fish, when we also include crab, lobster, shrimp, and eel. We could call it "seafood" but that might be too indicative of these animals being meant for food. And then what about lakefood and riverfood? It's just convenient to factor in other types of animals into a single colloquial word. Just like bugs. The most important point of language, is to get the message across. And by now, everyone roughly knows what a bug is. If you try to be overly correct, you're just making it confusing again, defeating the whole point of using spoken colloquial language.

@karendixon2250 Год назад

It's not a bug. It's a feature!

@oldcowbb Год назад

ladyfeature

@alexwoodhead6471 Год назад

- bethesda

@ZaDussault Год назад

Same

@imveryangryitsnotbutter Год назад

@@oldcowbb ...if you know what I mean.

@The.RandomTube Год назад

Ah I know this comment is going to get thousands of likes!

@johannaverplank4858 Год назад

I honestly didn’t know “bug” was an actual category of insect. I just thought it was a colloquial name for insects in general. Thanks for educating me!

@sisi7304 Год назад

The computer “bug” term came from actually having a moth getting stuck in circuits of computers that filled rooms, so that also tracks for the linguistic development of the word too!

@bjs301 Год назад

Thank you. That is the only interesting thing about this video.

@CamcorderHomeVideos Год назад

Ok I didn't know this. Some words are just used very frequently, but never questioned; just accepted. Thanks for the interesting comment!

@spartan0x75 Год назад

That's actually an urban legend. The word "bug" was used for computer program problems before Grace Hopper found a moth that caused a bug in the system and she joked about the bug being an actual bug. At least this is what I remember from my CS classes, so please do fact check me :)

@juliasophical Год назад

Not exactly true. The moth in the computer at Harvard in 1947 is often celebrated as the world's first *literal* computer bug, but the use of the term "bug" by engineers to refer to problems with their systems predates it by at least half a century. It's not the source of the term, just an amusing anecdote about a bug being a literal bug, made famous by the correspondence of the already in-use metaphorical term with its literal counterpart.

@bjs301 Год назад

@@spartan0x75 interesting that her name was Hopper.

@Naidnapurugavihs Год назад

As an aspiring biologist, I am really impressed by how you guys are able to elucidate unique and fundamental concepts in simple and captivating ways yet you still maintain perfect scientific accuracy ❤❤❤

@Octochiken Год назад

elucidate?

@jwinthepro Год назад

@@Octochiken synonymous with explain/describe

@jwinthepro Год назад

With all due respect, many scientists refrain from using fancy vocabulary so as to communicate effectively. One of the most important things in science is communicating our findings to the public, so we use simple words!

@Octochiken Год назад

@@jwinthepro I'm just saying there's no need to overcomplicate your sentences.

@intruder9127 Год назад

@@Octochiken i agree

@KnowArt Год назад

This last sentence is really important. Informal language is not precise, but very clear! As communicators we should rarely be precise _at the expense of_ being clear. Although many if not most of the times they go hand in hand.

@sandpiperbf9767 Год назад

I always say that the popular use of the word "bug" basically means arthropod and am happy to call crabs ocean bugs

@davidtitanium22 Год назад

And shrimps are ocean cockroach

@mk_rexx Год назад

@@davidtitanium22 Which is honestly tiring to hear/read because that factoid is just made to gross people out. There are a whole lot of varieties of shrimp and while some are indeed scavengers, most are generalists and some are filter feeders too. You could say "shrimp are [any arthropod] of the sea" and it would most likely be just as meaningless.

@davidtitanium22 Год назад

@@mk_rexx and it's funny because it is meaningless

@NG-we8uu Год назад

Crabs are not only to be found in oceans

@whome9842 8 месяцев назад

It is more about the fact that insects are a subgroup of crustaceans. A lobster is closely related to a butterfly than to a horseshoe crab.

@cerosis Год назад

Pill bugs? I believe you mean roly poly

@F_L_U_X Год назад

Roly poly? I believe you mean Rolie Polie Olie

@brunosales7973 Год назад

Yes

@nebulan Год назад

Potato bug!

@aname4931 Год назад

Is that like a woodlouse?

@breadman6549 Год назад

Yes

@JacekJurewicz Год назад

In Polish it's even worse, we use the word "robak" (worm) for any insect (or isopod, etc.) that crawls (rather than flies), or maybe even those that can fly, but are crawling at the moment.

@EdKolis Год назад

Meanwhile back in English land, "wyrm" means dragon and not an actual worm...

@viamedia2704 Год назад

@@EdKolisit did mean an actual worm as well though, it's ultimately from a Proto Indo-European root and is cognate with the Latin "vermis" (worm), where you ultimately get the name of your vermicelli pasta from.

@EdKolis Год назад

@@viamedia2704 mmm, worms! How to eat fried worms, though?

@IllidanS4 Год назад

I'd definitely just call them "features". As for the specific beetle, that's a "ladybird" to me!

@adrianblake8876 Год назад

And yet, it's not a bird, so it's even wierder...

@hiddeqel5172 Год назад

It's interesting that Carl Linnaeus was mentioned. Carl Linnaeus went twice to England but we do not know how much English he knew. He wrote down almost everything in Latin. . Linnaeus divided the arthropods into three main groups: Insecta (insects), Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, and their relatives), and Crustacea (crabs, lobsters, and their relatives). He subdivided Insecta in 7 orders of which one: Hemiptera. This term was later translated as bugs in English. So while the word "bug" is sometimes used to refer to Hemiptera, it was not a term used by Linnaeus or in his original classification system. So it's not so much Linnaeus himself, but rather the English translators that wanted to connect this Latin term with one used in English.

@rdreher7380 Год назад

Thank you. I wanted this clarified, as it was clear to me that something was being misleadingly simplified. It occurred to right away to think: why would Linnaeus, a Swede writing in Latin use the English word "bug?!"

@hiddeqel5172 Год назад

@@rdreher7380 Glad to have helped, the simple answer is: he didn't 😉. But taxology, language and translation is always a mess because the cultural "taxology" often precedes the scientific taxology in combination that different languages/culture have different "taxologies". E.g. A jellyfish is no fish, and a walvis (dutch for whale) is also no vis (fish). And even the scientific taxology changes, therefore it's great that the latin names are scientifically used as a point of reference.

@spliceosome Год назад

Thank you! This kind of makes the whole premise pointless, as bug was never a scientific definition. My guess is they knew that but chose to ignore it. It's an interesting video nonetheless, but it is misleading...

@yourlocalengineer Год назад

I think the best way to think of this is as two similar languages: common english and biology english. The language structures are the same, but the word meanings (and even what words are present) may differ Sort of like when an engineer talks about their work to an accountant, they might be asked to speak english afterwards

@JNCressey Год назад

The accountant measures work in manhours. The engineer measures work in watthours.

@Kevin-cf9nl Год назад

It s a classic case of jargon

@gamechep Год назад

We call them Ladybirds or the Ladybird Beetle in India. I love the black dots on the red shell, feels like a miniature painting ❤

@tigrafale4610 Год назад

Thanks for supplying me more ammunition for when I'm declaring "ladybird" as the correct word.

@AndyfromWrexham Год назад

I need to clarify that the ones in Britain we call Ladybirds are the ones that are red with black spots and have wings folded under a hard shell

@AndyfromWrexham Год назад

Just like the one in your picture thumbnail

@andressigalat602 7 месяцев назад

Exactly the same ones that are called "ladybugs" in American English.

@fionahurley5546 Год назад

The "lady" part of ladybug (or ladybird in British English) comes from "Our Lady" (as in Mary, mother of Jesus). This connection with Mary is also found in the German "Marienkäfer" (Mary's beetle) and the Danish "Mariehøne" (Mary's hen). Whereas in both Irish and Russian it's "God's little cow" ("bóín Dé" / "bozhya korovka").

@andressigalat602 7 месяцев назад

In Spanish is "mariquita", and I think it originally also made reference to the Vingin Mary, although in modern slang it has come to mean "sissy-boy".

@dilmarago 6 месяцев назад

Joaninha (little/small Joana) in Portuguese, at least in Brazilian Portuguese

@mikaelfoster9726 Год назад

The fact some people don't know the difference between entomology and etymology bugs me in a way I can't put into words.

@Tinil0 Год назад

Weirdly as a lay person I've had this on my mind way too often all things considered. The problem is that the term "bug" for "small creepy crawly" is just so dang useful. It's inclusive of so much that seemingly "go together", like insects and spiders and isopods, and that I can't think of any better term for. I always just say "true bug" if I mean bug in a scientific sense which works for me, "true bug" and "bug" just being completely different classifications for animals in my mind.

@lateoclock4281 Год назад

They really committed "Entomological Etymology". I love this channel.

@Zorae42 Год назад

Excuse you, computer glitches are called "bugs" because one of the first glitches was caused by a moth getting trapped in a relay.

@Andersl201 Год назад

You would really hate the name for ladybug in norwegian. "Marihøne", Mari is based on virgin Mary and høne is a chicken. You also have summer bird (butterfly is "sommerfugl" in norwegian) and probably many other strangely named creatures. Also we generally use the word "bille" for everything crawling on the ground and insect for everything flying around.

@hakanstorsater5090 Год назад

The "summerbird" name also exists in Danish and Yiddish, so it probably entered Scandinavia through Low German and originated in some continental German variety... (Swedish has "fjäril", which I think originally might have meant something like "little flutterer", the similarity to "fjäder" (feather) is probably coincidental...)

@birdgirl97_2 Год назад

how do i pronounce any of this?

@CorrectFossa Год назад

The day I recognized language as a living, changing thing, and acknowledged that common names don’t need to make sense is the day I became happy

@TheRealE.B. Год назад

I've been doing this backwards my entire life. I didn't even know that "bug" had a scientific definition and thought it was a mere vernacular term for any creepy-crawly thing and was thus the more general term. A half-remembered Bill Nye episode may have been involved.

@wellurban Год назад

I think it’s much less common outside the US to call all creepy-crawlies “bugs”. I don’t think most people I’d know would refer to a fly or wasp or dragonfly as a bug, though they might use that term (incorrectly) for beetles.

@pawel198812 Год назад

Is that meaning of the word 'bug' limited to American and Canadian English?

@imafrog4 Год назад

In Australia, we call them either ladybirds or ladybeetles, depending on which part of the country you're from. I'd never heard the term ladybug till A Bug's Life came out.

@turmunkhganbaatar2515 Год назад

Fun fact The Mongolian equivalent horhoi can be used for snakes and worms which leads to the death worm which is actually a basalisk like snake originally

@micahphilson Год назад

I would love a video like this about Berries! So few things called berries are actually berries. But watermelons, cucumbers, squash, and even pumpkins are!

@MegaMinerd Год назад

Hey I was just discussing this exact question with someone last week. Now I can share a well researched answer. (We hadn't concluded to anything solid) Looks like the video went in the opposite direction of discussion. We basically agreed we'd use the term bug for insects, arachnids, isopods, myriapods and probably other groups of terrestrial arthropods.

@genio2509 Год назад

I just use bug as a direct translation of bicho, wich is any kind of critter. In Spanish, the hemiptera aren't called by a normal name. And individual ones like bedbug (ácaro), ladybug (mariquita), stinkbug (chinche) are bug free. So during learning I just stuck using bug as bicho, even if it is incorrect on English. PS: Google translate says bicho is bug.

@dilmarago 6 месяцев назад

In Brazil we use the word bicho for small critters, but it is also used as a synonim for animal (written as in English, but with different pronunciation). We have the word percevejo for Hemiptera

@plumpengu Год назад

i (an aspiring entomologist) have this conversation with a friend at least once a week. really neat to know the origin of the word in both a scientific and colloquial sense now!

@joshuagardner4095 Год назад

I think you're going about this the wrong way. Instead of trying to get 332 million Americans (and more beyond the US who might say "ladybug") to say something different, just get the 35k biologists to ditch the term "bug" as anything within the scientific lexicon. It's Linnaeus's fault, not everyone else's.

@tyrant-den884 Год назад

"A part of me wants to call it a ladybug, but it's not." Large parts of the world: "That's cause it's a BIRD!"

@PiotrekR-aka-Szpadel Год назад

The origin of the term "bug" in computers dates back to the early days of computing when a moth was found trapped in a relay, causing the system to malfunction. Since then, the term has evolved and is now used to describe any issue that causes a program to behave incorrectly or produce unintended results. Also term debugging was fairly literal in early days.

@ML-fc3je Год назад

I saw the thumbnail and I was drawn to wanting to know more. Now that I know more I will do join mobile infantry to see what other bugs I can find.

@0OB08O Год назад

In Portuguese we never called insects by "bug", only the word for "insect" is used for insects and other things are called by other words, but we adopted the word "bug" for digital bugs.

@danielmalinen6337 Год назад

In Finland, a ladybug is called a "leppäkerttu" or "läppäpirko", even though it is not bloody and neither is St. Bridget of Sweden, and St. Bridget of Sweden was never bloody and has nothing to do with ladybugs. ( In Finnic languages, "leppä" was the old word for blood alongside world "veri" and in Finland alder is called "leppä" because it is "a tree that bleeds when wounded". )

@aeyelashbug6311 Год назад

I had no idea crustaceans and insects were more closely related to eachother than they were to arachnids. I thought insects and arachnids would be close and then crustaceans would be a completely different part of arthropods.

@Chris.Davies Год назад

You mean "ladybird" of course! And yes, it's not a bird. :) Here in New Zealand, we use the word "bug" exclusively to describe microbes which can infect you. When you are sick, you say you have "caught a bug" or that you are "very buggy" or "have a bad bug". We do not ever use bug to describe insects of any kind.

@robert-andreiionita2827 Год назад

…it’s a feature.

@PANZER7910 Год назад

Mum: You found the bug yet? Jimmy? Scientist: Yeah, I do, but I dont.

@floramew Год назад

...huh. wild, I grew up with the idea that 'bug' was not a scientific term, and was mostly vibes-based, the way 'fish' is impossible to define. Most, but not all, people I know would say worms aren't bugs, but that spiders, isopods, etc are. I think snails were usually the... Fence mark? Iirc, most weren't sure if they counted as bugs. So it's wild to hear that insects aren't a subcategory of bugs, but the other way around.

@BillySugger1965 Год назад

What’s wrong with fish? Aquatic vertebrate. And in modern phylogeny, one never outlives ancestral clades, that means we’re fish too.

@thany3 Год назад

Sometimes the scientific word for an animal group is the same as the colloquial word. In this case, it is not. But isn't that just fine? We also call fish, fish. Even though most fish aren't related to each other at all. It's just convenience. We could call them critters, but I would call small rodents critters as well. Rodents is another one of those words - it's easy and incorrect, but convenient, to also include rabbits. Perhaps because we "use" them as rodents (i.e. small animals kept in a smallish enclosure). And of course the seahorse, while we call it a horse, it isn't a horse by any stretch of the imagination. And there are loads of other animals that have the "wrong" name, either in English or in your own language. In my language, a porcupine litterally translates back to English as "spikey pig", but it isn't a pig. Just goes to show how beautifully colourful language can be, innit.

@Entropic_Alloy Год назад

This isn't limited to the word "bug." Tons of words have "technically correct usage" and "colloquial usage." It is something you just have to deal with. I mean before you learned the proper entomology, you likely used the word "bug" for all the creepy crawlies, right? It only bothers you now that you know the technical term. You can get all "well ackshully" in every instance the colloquialism occurs and come off as a "know-it-all," or you can just let it not bother you because it is a relatively inconsequential use of verbiage. It only really matters when serious misconceptions are being spread.

@jwinthepro Год назад

This is common knowledge. The video is giving context to the bug situation.

@Ninegauger Год назад

All those are bugs to me: Worms, snails, spiders, insects, and pillbugs. Scientists are talking about a subgroup of insects and I’m talking about a variety of small basically unrelated creatures. Love it!

@finalbarrage7108 Год назад

The word "bug" in the computer world actually has its own very interesting story. A long while ago while computers were mechanical, and at the size of entire rooms, a computer stopped working, and when the engineers went inside to try and fix it, they found a bug stuck in a cog. Removing that bug solved the problem, so they labled that process "debugging". As in, literally removing a bug. This is where a "bug" in the glitch sense got its name

@Stitchez_YT Год назад

*The more you know* ✨✨✨✨✨✨💫

@kruks Год назад

This isn't correct, but rather is an anecdote from the early days of computing ("First actual case of bug being found."). The term "bug" in engineering predates both mechanical and digital computing; Thomas Edison referred to the colloquialism in the 1870's - most famously in a letter from 1878 where he admits it's not a literal insect - and he was not the first to use the term either. More likely the usage was simply was born from the idea of a bug as a small but effective irritant, as software bugs can be small yet irritating too. But the 1947 story is cute.

@rayyaninspookymonth1630 Год назад

Some bug-types in Pokémon: lol

@Pingwn Год назад

I didn't know bug had a technological definition, I thought it was just a general word for small critters, especially arthropods.

@bcjmythical9576 Год назад

bug: *keeps being misused entemology* fly: *nervous sweating*

@Dirili Год назад

Interesting from an outside view. There is no direct equivalent to bug in my language, so I never equated it with beetles, more with "crawlies" in general if anything. Never realized that anglophones confuse bugs for beetles.

@thundergamergd 22 дня назад

I always thought a bug was a childish name for an insect and not a scientific category.

@rotinoma Год назад

now do one for germs

@bosstowndynamics5488 Год назад

The history of the word bug just reinforces my belief that, in common English, it is entirely fair to call a spider a bug

@caygesinnett6474 Год назад

This is a good example of why scientists should give technical definitions to technical words and not try to use ordinary words

@ThijquintNL Год назад

Tbh, what gives scientists the right to take a word, narrow its definition and then expect everybody to henceforth use that word in that way...

@samiral-hayed1656 Год назад

I like to keep technical taxonomy separate from casual conversation. Flies might not scientifically be bugs, but if a kid asks me what a fly is, I'll say 'a type of bug.'

@StormgemThunder Год назад

As someone who's really into snakes, the disconnect between taxonomical classification and common names is definitely someththing I'm familiar with. For example, there's the viperid north american copperhead, the elapid (like cobras, taipans, mambas, sea kraita) australian copperhead, the south asian colubrid (a lot of common, mostly harmless snakes like gopher snakes, hognose snakes and grass snakes) copperhead rat snake, and the chinese viperid copperhead. Australia also has elapid death adders, while most snakes called adders are vipers, or the elapid african garter snakes vs the colubrid north american garter snakes, or how some snakes are called pythons or boas while not being from said families, eg the calabar python which is actually a boa. And of course, king cobras not actually being true cobras, and are more closely related to mambas (black mambas actually have a neck flap)

@dilmarago 6 месяцев назад

In Portuguese, "cobra" is any kind of snake. We also have the word "serpente", but is not so used in everyday conversation.

@MagicOfDark Год назад

Fun Fact: Mechanical Bug was used because back in the day of large room size machines errors were caused by actual "bugs"(or in this case insects) being found inside the hardware. The term then stayed for any error that is found, though I like the term "glitch" better.

@appa609 Год назад

I remember when Minute meant one minute. This video could have been one minute without any loss of content.

@juliasophical Год назад

I guess their overly verbose presentation *bugs* you, eh?

@noone3708 Год назад

3:23 i like how you can hear the restraint.

@rachelbroughton6457 Год назад

Entomologists doing etymology! I love it!

@NoNameAtAll2 Год назад

Scientists: Am I out of touch? No it's the public who is wrong

@LetsDark Год назад

The term bug for computers come from electrical problems when a bug got electrocuted and shorted a circuit. A bug in "software" was often caused by a real bug in the circuit.

@olorin4317 10 месяцев назад

Bug is simply the best word for small creepy crawlies, so naturally it took over as the common nomenclature.

@xvie_z2900 4 месяца назад

These misconception of names has always bugged me as well For instance, in my native language we call hyenas "lesser wolves" even though hyenas are not any canabi ,it tips me off and I always find it fun to explain it to people and ruin their beliefs

@snardfluk Год назад

I’m with you. "The Stickler" by Louise Richardson I am a stickler, THE stickler. Accuracy is what I insist upon. An ape is not a monkey. A whale is not a fish. A spider is no bug, a scorpion is no bug. For that matter, an insect is not a bug Unlesss it IS a bug--like a bedbug, Like a stink bug, like an assassin bug, Like an aphid is a bug. The bugs, often called the "true bugs", Are of the order Hemiptera, "Hemi" for half and "ptera" for wing. Sometimes the wing's bottom half is hardened And the wing's top half is membraneous. They also have piercing and sucking mouth parts. Cockroaches are Blattodea, not bugs. Ants and bees are Hymenoptera, Termites are Isoptera, butterflies Lepidoptera, Flies, fleas, mosquitoes, midges are Diptera. And the beetles are Coleoptera, yeah, yeah, yeah. The beetles are the most popular life form. About 40% of all known insects are beetles. About 25% of all life on Earth is beetles. Said the great naturalist J.B.S. Haldane, "The Creator, if he exists, has An inordinate fondness for beetles." So I say, "Don't call them bugs!"

@IrocZIV Год назад

Did not know bug was a technical term at all. I've generally use 'bug' when I can't be sure the creature is an insect.

@Pottery4Life Год назад

I had no idea that the word "bug" was that important. Thank you for the clarification.

@dragorphis1 Год назад

I mean, in the UK we call it a “ladybird” which is a bit further off than mis-naming it a bug…

@lunerwerewolf Год назад

Fun fact: Ladybug is actually shorthand the actual name for this beetle is Ladybird beetle

@rextanglr4056 Год назад

I mean, shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish, and jellyfish aren't actually fish, so...

@LavenderLushLuxury Год назад

I love, Lady Bug's 🐞🐛🧪

@bartje321 Год назад

In the Netherlands we call them "lieveheersbeestje" litteraly translated as "dear gods little beast"

@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz Год назад

2:09 Narrator: "By the early 1600's..." Text: "16005"

@treasureseeker358 Год назад

In nonspecific country we are calling ladybug Sunshinebug or Seven-dotsbug

@dragonskunkstudio7582 Год назад

If you say beetlebugs People will think you are singing to Art of Noise - Beatbox 😁

@weotu Год назад

I always thought 'bug' was a general layman term for any terrestrial or airborne invertebrate (aquatic ones get fancy names like 'shrimp', though I've called those seabugs too). Sorta like how all tissues are 'kleenex.' I know a worm, spider, snail, fly, and beetle are all from different categories but they share being small, invertebrate, and unwelcome in my home or general proximity. Except fireflies, which I think are actually a beetle, not a fly. They're cool if they want to land on me

@angeldude101 Год назад

This echoes a previous video on types of trees, where scientists categorize trees into hardwood and softwood based on their genetics with no regard to their actual hardness or softness. This is overloading a common term to refer to something specific and then getting upset when people use the term in its original meaning. This is legitimately the first time I heard of bugs being a sub-category of insects rather than the other way around.

@aarsca6834 Год назад

Bug and planet suffer from the same fate, both are general terms but unhelpful when you're being specific

@codysurfer8232 Год назад

ah the old problem of colloquial terms versus taxonomic terms. like how a lot of fruits with berry in their name aren't berries, but pumpkins are.

@TissueCat Год назад

Pedantry around the word "bug" bothers me just as much as so-called "incorrect" usage of it apparently bothers other people. If you want to talk about order Hemiptera, you should say "true bug" or "hemipteran" for clarity. You can't expect us to give up our wonderful monosyllabic umbrella term for all kinds of creepy crawlies just because one 18th century Swedish man said so.

@astaiannymph Год назад

Linguistically, the widening of the word makes sense. We clearly benefit from having a word for the small creepy-crawlies as a group, because most of the time humans deal with these in the same way. The specific taxonomy of a creature doesn't much matter when there's a bug on you, or one got inside, so you caught and released it. It's good to know the scientific definition, but it's also good to know when you need to--or don't need to--use the scientific definition (see also tomatos as fruit/vegetable).

@angeldude101 Год назад

This seems more like a narrowing of a word than a widening.

@Walltumbler Год назад

Love your videos!... But it's astoundingly to me that you left out even a cursory mention of computer bugs! 😢

@JaimeNyx15 Год назад

“Bug” in the colloquial sense is a very useful term, allowing folks to talk about terrestrial invertebrates without misapplying the term “insect”. So a ladybug can be a “bug”, but not a “true bug”. Or we can just rename “true bugs” something else so scientists don’t have to have this dilemma.

@coolbro8922 10 месяцев назад

It’s like “the city of London” is not a city, but Westminster is a city.

@kingofdefense Год назад

A scientist trying to use a very vague word as a group name sounds like a skill issue to me.

@isabelarcher6873 Год назад

Often common names of insects if they are true bugs they are separated by a space like the giant-water bug or the assassin bug. When they are not separated by a space like the ladybug beetle they are often not true bugs (Hymenoptera). Same goes for flies like sand fly and house fly as opposed to butterflies

@yourconscious Год назад

While I'm by no means an entomologist, I do interact with some quite frequently as I enjoy watching and identifying arthropods. What I've found is for the most part, they will not correct the colloquial use of "bug" and will instead make the distinction from bugs (terrestrial arthropods) and bugs (Hemiptera) by the use of the term "true bugs". While this is only anecdotal evidence, it is why I have no problem referring to what I do was bug watching, and the little friends I observe as bugs. Should I need to be specific, I can always just say true bugs.

@matt92hun Год назад

Deer was also a general word for animals before this French word took that meaning over. And all dogs were hounds, etc.

@Teauma Год назад

It's actual news to me that bug is a proper scientific term.

@brianedwards7142 Год назад

Add to that I was bought up to call pill-bugs slater BEETLES.

@CommonSenz Год назад

MinuteEarth produces eye-opening video about a deadly neurotoxin, called caffeine. .. Proceeds to sell merchandise with it. Well played.

@Blackbird74733 Год назад

I decided bug can refer to any arthropod. barnacles, crabs, trilobites- all of them. all bugs.

@Pants4096 Год назад

Southern American English seems to insist on calling wasps "bees" for similar reasons.

@AnthonyHandcock 5 месяцев назад

LadyBIRD

@aWildSteveO Год назад

There are certain words that Belong to toddlers; bug is one of them. If a toddler would call something a bug, then it Is a bug. They "taught" me this in etymology in highschool,, but they were wrong lmao. It's like saying, "actually that isn't a ball: it's a ball bearing"

@dan.j.boydzkreationz Год назад

As Stephen Fry noted, there's also no such thing as a "fish". It's not just a thing with fins, eyes, mouth and a tail. There's Jellyfish, which are more like mobile plants, yet oysters aren't called fish. There's starfish too. If it's a thing that lives in the ocean, then why aren't Dolphins or whales fishes? And of all the things we recognise as fish, very few have the same taxonomy.

@MikeGibson Год назад

Getting really tired of scientists deciding that their definition of a word is the truly correct one. Yes, in technical fields, we apply very specific meanings to words so that we can be precise in our language. That doesn't mean the rest of the speaking public is beholden to use those words in the same way. Context matters.

@marcellkiss-redey8451 Год назад

Interestingly, the same problem exists in other languages. "Bogár" (meaning bug/beetle) is a much more widespread term in Hungarian than "rovar" (meaning insect), and the former is often used to refer to insects that aren't actually bugs.