[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "painted with his blood"

[Felix Malmenbeck]

I would use {ngoH}, meaning "smear" (TKD) or "paint using fingers" (KGT).
I don't believe we have any canonical sentences using this word, but from the original gloss being "smear", I strongly suspect it takes the "ink" one uses as its object.

jagh Duj Daq [cha'/ghItlh/wev/ngu'/'ang/'agh]meH la', yavDaq 'IwDaj ngoHta'.


//loghaD


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Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "painted with his blood"


When the the verb DIj "paint with a pigment stick" was explained, we learned that it can be used for producing a visual image, even if no paint or pigment stick is involved, for example with a pencil, or with a device or computer software.


Assume we want to say: "while the injured commander was dying, he drew on the ground with his blood, the location of enemy ship". How would we write it ?


Would the following be correct ?


{jagh Duj Daq cha'meH la', yav DIjta'; DIjmeH 'IwDaj lo'ta'}

"the commander, in order to show the location of the enemy ship, painted the ground; in order to paint he used his blood"


Now, because I *know* someone is itching to say "you don't paint the location of the enemy ship"..


This is an example used to ask, how we actually specify, "the what is being used to draw something".


So, there is no actual need for someone trying to be smart, saying crap like "the commander would just say the location instead of painting it".


~ m. qunen'oS

ironic.. trying to appear smart, yet proving to be the idiot..

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