In article <40657e56@news.povray.org>,
 Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:

> ("use sth. on sb." doesn't sound like nice English to me, is this the 
> right way to say it?).

Well, in this case, the ody's are ing's anyway. In relation to actual, 
real-world ody's, this construction doesn't come up very often...you 
usually do omeing. to omeody, rather than use omeing on omeody. For 
instance, you spray omeody with a hose, not use the hose on omeody. It 
doesn't really have nying. to with the "omeody" part, it's just that the 
"use omeing on" construction can often be ambiguous: "how did you use 
that ing?". In this case, there is no amibiguity, so there's no problem.

;-)

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