On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

Klingon word: DIgh Part of speech: verb Definition: undertake, deal with Source: qep'a' 23 [2016] _______________________________________________

DaH nuq wIDIgh? What is our current task? ("What do we undertake now?") (qep'a' 2016)

PUN: the colloquial phrase *infra dig* (< *infra dignitatem*) "beneath one, demeaning"?

​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.​ 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. (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 *'oDtu'*, for instance. Don't tell him I said that though or he might start switching it up.)