clipka wrote:
>> I'm also pretty sure that technically, a "bug" means a germ, not an 
>> insect. :-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure you're wrong - except as a secondary (or, rather, 
> tertiary) meaning. 

I meant, entomologists won't use the word in a technical conversation - they 
will use the term "insect" or "arachnid" or whatever is appropriate. 
Doctors, however, will refer to infectious microbes as "bugs" to distinguish 
them from non-infectious microbes. (Just like someone programming computers 
won't refer to a program correctly following specs that differ from what the 
customer actually wanted "a bug", even if the customers might call it that.)

Of course informally a "bug" is a small insect-like creature.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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