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

>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 16:37:06 +0000
>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@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}.

De'vID