Bug

Who would have thought that a bug can sometimes loosen things more than an elephant. Only if you find it in the right place.

The current media star in Montenegro is exactly that - a bug.

This bug has raised a number of ecological questions: from which habitat did it emerge, for example. What winds brought her exactly where she was found, but also who listened to her distant voice...

(While there is her distant voice, there is no distant doubt, one might say.)

Being a bug in Montenegro is not easy, someone pitiful will say, at first glance. It is not easy to be neither a man, nor a dog, nor a wolf, nor an eagle, let alone a bug, some realist will tell him.

But it's nothing, a bug fell on the grass, as the new version of the old folk expression could read.

In the office of the Special Prosecutor Katnic a listening device was found, colloquially - "bug". And there it is - a public spectacle.

Katnić is also a character whom the media "loves", he is "scenic", in the sense that his every performance is a kind of attraction, whether the attraction is linguistic, logical or professional...

Now also a bug. About which almost everyone seems more excited than Katnić himself. He probably knows the ancient art of hypnotizing bugs. Maybe he also convinced the bug, like that Paja, to go over to his side?

In our area, bugs are, not just yesterday, an active participant in history. At one of the most important crossroads in the development of SFRY, a bug showed - a new direction or the right direction, call it what you want. When is Bros found bugs in his bedroom - the dismantling of the rigid communist police apparatus began. I do not believe that Katnić will go that far.

Bubica, a diminutive of bug, in addition to listening device, which is a meaning that only became popular in the last fifty or sixty years, has other interesting meanings and expressions. There is even a nickname - Buba, that is, Beetle...

"Quiet as a bug" is a disgusting compliment you might have heard from educators for a student who doesn't cause problems. I say "disgusting" because the subtext always understood giving priority to silence and non-participation in reality, which in the so-called communist era was the perfect recipe for an ideal subject. Our dubious compliments: "Wonderful man, unheard of alive, calm as a bug."

On the other hand, we have a colloquial meaning almost completely opposite, so bugs cover - a huge semantic space. When someone is on his own, when he has unusual or just unconventional ideas, then it is said - "he has his bugs." It's a kind of gentle warning: handle with care.

Putting a bug in your head is not a type of personal eavesdropping (although every person in the world dreams of such a device), but a slang term for information that destroys the system from the inside, when something you heard doesn't give you peace, when you start building towers and cities on some a dubious premise that someone suggested to you.

In the heyday of SFRY, the most popular play in the country was Feydoova "Bug in the ear" directed Ljubiša Ristić.

We also have two cinematic masterpieces on the subject of bugs and eavesdropping. Copolino "Eavesdropping" and "The Lives of Others" Von Donnersmark. Stories of two unusual dimensions of professionalism that accompany this despised and cruel job.

By the way, the applied zoology of the secret services is very interesting and significant. The two most important and popular animals are there - the bug (eavesdropper) and the mole (sleeper, inserted agent). Significant, certainly, because the selected fauna undoubtedly refers to the underground layers, to the fascination with the underground...

In short - the more bugs, the more certain you can be that the underworld rules the overworld...