[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puq Hol

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 02:39, James Landau <savegraduation at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 16:37:06 +0000
> >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: puq Hol
>
>
> >Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, January 01, 2022
> >
> >tlhen         sound as, produce the sound of (v)
> >  - (qep?a? 2021): Use with sound nouns, e.g., {bobDar tlhen} "(it)
> produces a splash sound?
> >
> >BTW did everyone catch the pun in the noun {bobDar} "splash"?  (I only
> did two weeks ago!)
>
> All the HojnIypu' had the dancing bug . . . (I doubt a bug would be a
> *ghew* in that lyric . . . what could you call it?)
>

I think "to have/catch a bug" in this case is a metaphor for being infected
with a disease, so I'd use {ngej} and {rop}. Something like {Hoch HojnIypu'
ngejpu' mI'nISwI' rop}.

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