On Fri,  2 Jan 2009 09:35:52 EST, "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
>> I think that calling the VW Beetle a bug is US centric.
>
>I don't think so; the classic Volkswagen after which the "New Beetle" is shaped

>(though currently nasty cold) country since no-one knows - which can be
>translated as "bug" just about as well as "beetle".
>


>totally mistaken.
>
>
There was a short discussion about "the punch buggy game" in OT early last year
(XKCD solves my life). That's what made me think that it's an American thing to
call the beetle a bug.
BTW when speaking English would a German speaker call a VW beetle a bug?
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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