#ablative absolute

[quantumshade]

with the pussy having been so fine she sends you into the ablative absolute

[queercodex]

someone in casual conversation: with the [noun] having been [verbed]... me: *sniffs them* CLASSICIST?!?!

[sonicpositive]

@ablative-absolute: So I just wanted to tell a lil story. I have loved sonic ever since I was a kid, and that love hasn’t faded at all as I’ve grown up. I’m a young adult now, and I get a lot of (mostly harmless) flak from friends and family for loving the series so much. But the other day I was in a job interview and they were asking about my interests, so I mentioned video games, and I mentioned that I’d just beaten Sonic Adventure 2 Battle the night before. They asked me if I would hypothetically be comfortable getting up in front of, like, 200 people and giving a lecture about Sonic. I said totally, I would love that! And they said alright, stand up and tell us what what you’d say! So I just started describing everything I knew about the series, basically just trying to show I had public speaking and improv skills, and that ended up being the part of the interview that I felt the most confident about. Later that day I got the call – I got the job!!!!!

TLDR: My love of Sonic the Hedgehog literally got me a job! Never let anyone tell you that Sonic isn’t useful, worthwhile, or cool!

[goncharrival]

I looked cute today

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

before I had taken Latin classes at university, I took a class on American legal history. my professor was talking about the second amendment and remarked how it doesn’t make grammatical sense [ie. the dependent clause, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, . . . .”] If only I had taken Latin then. then I would have been able to point it out as an “absolute” grammatical construction. honestly. smh 

[johnnyonespur]

TIL: The "ablative absolute" is a conjugation in Latin in which a subordinate clause defines the circumstances or situation in which the action of the main verb occurs.

With these words having been said, Caesar departs. With the letter having been received, Caesar departs. With the lion having been seen, the women departed.

[kathywaller1]

Making Whoopee and Little Black Books

Making Whoopee and Little Black Books

I’m a distractible adult.

I wasn’t a distractible child, but things change.

I blame the Internet. Open it to check one thing, and I’m lost for hours.

It’s like a dictionary. You know how it is: you look up ablative and right below it you see ablative absolute, and before you can close the book, you see abhenry and abraham’s bosom, and before you know it you’re on zedonk and zyzzyvas. It’s the Ice…

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[youngmomincollege]

Nominative Absolute

Like Ablative Absolute, but with Nominative. Did you know that existed?

Well, now you do.