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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

A retort in three parts;

  1. It's bugs (colloquial), not Bugs (texanomic),

  2. There's being pedantic and then there's being a jackass - that's you, jackass, and

  3. @eat_roadkill should embrace their name and go chow down on a three-day-dead skunk.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure taxonomy is in latin because actual scientists got tired of dealing with pedantic dipshits.

"Bug" is an english word so it's the domain of an etymologist not a biolgist. My lookup of the word indicates applying "bug" to arachnids is perfectly cromulent.

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Also, Op never called spiders a bug to begin with

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