<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Klingon word: DIgh<br>
Part of speech: verb<br>
Definition: undertake, deal with<br>
</span>Source: qep'a' 23 [2016]<br>
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DaH nuq wIDIgh?<br>
What is our current task? ("What do we undertake now?") (qep'a' 2016)<br>
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PUN:<br>
the colloquial phrase *infra dig* (< *infra dignitatem*) "beneath one, demeaning"?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The popularity of this expression seems to be in decline (I had never heard of it before now), so I suspect this might not be it.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">If it's a pun at all, my guess is that it's a pun on "undertaker" -- as in, someone who handles funerals and DIghs a grave. <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">(One thing I've noticed with Okrand's recent puns is that when he provides multiple glosses for a word with a pun in it, if the pun is related to an alternate meaning or use of one of those glosses, it'll probably be the word he lists first. Look at the order of glosses in the original description of <b>'oDtu'</b>, for instance. <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Don't tell him I said that though or he might start switching it up.)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div>