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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In English yes, but “catching a bug” means something quite different to Klingons:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> ghewmey SuqQo'
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Don't catch any bugs! (ST6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">which is smuggler's code for "Good luck in avoiding border officials!" according to the ST6 novelization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> ghewmey tISuqQo'
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Don't catch any bugs. (TKW)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(TKW p.207): “The Klingon guard at listening post Morska found this advice funny. Klingon humor is difficult to understand, so there is no ready explanation
as to why he was so amused.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">And there’s this joke from Power Klingon:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Qo'noSDaq paw cha' DIvI' beq.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> tlhIngan 'avwI' lughom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> lutlhob «naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a'?»<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> jang 'avwI' «lIchopbe'chugh ghewmey!»<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Two Federation crewmen arrive on Kronos.<br>
They meet a Klingon guard.<br>
They ask him, "Can we get to the Great Hall from here?"<br>
The guard answers, "If the bugs do not bite you!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">… which may mean being arrested by the “bugs” (police? security guards?).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol
<b>On Behalf Of </b>De'vID<br>
</span>On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 02:39, James Landau <<a href="mailto:savegraduation@yahoo.com">savegraduation@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 16:37:06 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">>From: Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">>Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, January 01, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">>tlhen sound as, produce the sound of (v)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">> - (qep?a? 2021): Use with sound nouns, e.g., {bobDar tlhen} "(it) produces a splash sound?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">>BTW did everyone catch the pun in the noun {bobDar} "splash"? (I only did two weeks ago!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">All the HojnIypu' had the dancing bug . . . (I doubt a bug would be a *ghew* in that lyric . . . what could you call it?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">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}.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">De'vID<o:p></o:p></p>
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