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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">ghItlhpu' De'vID, jatlh:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">> Actually, wouldn't the object of {DIj} be a pigment stick, i.e., the command</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">> ought to have been something like {DI'raq DachenmoHmeH rItlh naQ yIDIj}?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Given that KGT's definition of {DIj} is "<span>use a {rItlh naQ}, paint with a {rItlh naQ}</span>" (in the text) and "<span>use a pigment stick, paint with pigment stick</span>", no parentheses in either case, I'd have
thought {rItlh naQ} is the one thing that would never be used as its object. The {rItlh naQ} is expressly included in the definition of the verb.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">While we have no overt sign of how {DIj} might work with an object, absent other evidence I don't have any problem at all with the use of {DIj} with the depiction as the object. In the past I've also used it in contexts
where the object is the pigment itself, rather than the depiction:</p>
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<div>DopvamDaq DIng, DopvetlhDaq DIng<br>
'ej mI' ram Hegh Sech mIS.<br>
rItlh DIjbogh veqlargh rur bIQ'a',<br>
wov 'oH, 'ej SuD, 'ej chIS.</div>
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<div>"About, about, in reel and rout</div>
<div>The death-fires danced at night;</div>
<div>The water, like a witch's oils,</div>
<div>Burnt green, and blue, and white."</div>
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<div>(The Rime of the Ancient Mariner II.11)<br>
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QeS 'utlh<br>
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