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happy 10th anniversary to Deep Breath, the beginning of the 12th doctor era! I couldn't decide which poster idea I liked more so I did both.

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@latinare out of curiosity, any reason why you used uber over mamma? I feel as though the latter's more typical for humans? Love your work btw :)

could you break down uberibus apertis?

So there's a noun, uber, meaning "breast" or "teat", followed by a verb, aperire, "to uncover".

This verb, though, is taking an adjectival form, the perfect participle passive, which can be translated "having been uncovered". The ppp often adds a -t- to the infinitive stem, so you end up with the stems uber- and apert-.

The endings -ibus and -is are both ablative plural, just from different declensions. The ablative case is used for lots of things but this use, called the ablative of description*, describes an attribute of someone or something: here it might be translated "with uncovered breasts."

I'm not sure how detailed of a breakdown you were looking for, but hopefully this suits!

*In case you're wondering, there's no practical difference in this scenario between the ablative of description and ablative absolute; you could label it either way and still translate it the same.

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the doctor on their way to steal your heart

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the midwest princess ♥️ love her

prints available here!

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what does a linguist wear to the beach?

a diphthong!

i guess i need to update my summer wardrobe

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not even kidding anymore I need to [REDACTED] to noah's waterparks cover I swear

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It's nice that New Who has finally been around long enough that we've largely escaped the RTD/Moffat binary of the early 2010s and there's a much more pluralistic group of factions with like Tennant/Smith casuals, old school tenrose diehards, hardcore Twelfth Doctor fans, Thasmins, and I'm sure there's a whole new group developing right now around Fifteen. It's a much more balanced ecosystem of groups that all absolutely despise each other

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has this been done yet?

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I love it when music artists give the impression they've come straight from a greek language tute at oxford and thought fuck it this new word I just learnt would look rad in a song.

noahfinnce and sophie powers I'm looking at you you've made a classicist very happy with your alexithymias and your haphephobes

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affirmation #8

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When disaster comes, he's there. He brings a storm in his wake.

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