Re: "Bad language" in Animal Crossing

Toby Newman wrote:
Aye but that was you that wrote those things. I'm assuming that Blathers is scripted and doesn't pick up words from the other animals. I would imagine that it's just one of those words that americans think is cute and british without realising the full meaning. 


Well, mosquitos are bugs. That means they are able to bug you. Which
makes them buggers.


<taxonomy pedant>
Strictly speaking they're not "bugs" as that refers to a particular order, the Hemiptera. Mosquitos are Diptera or true flies.
</taxonomy pedant>

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