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Hi,When you’re painting a fence, it’s almost inevitable that some of the paint ends up on your face.Would you say that the paint ‘splattered over your face’ if you had a lot of dots of paint on your face?Thank you.

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In my view you're actually asking about 3 different situations:

1. When you're painting a fence, say, with a brush, you'd normally not get any paint on your face, or, if you did, it would be just a little, which you would see when you looked in the mirror, or if someone noticed it and said: "You'd got paint on your face." The words "splattered" or "dots" would not be used here.

2. "Splattered" would indicate an unusual situation. Say, you're painting a fence and you drop an open paint can. The impact would send plumes of paint in all directions and splatter paint on your face. Then someone might say: "How come you're got paint splattered all over your face?"

3. "Dots of paint" would also indicate an unusual situation. "Dots" suggests a fine spray as the origin. Say, you're using a sprayer instead of a brush and it's windy. You'd end up with fine dots of paint on your face, and someone might say: "You've got small dots of paint all over your face."

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