transitive Q A transitive verb expresses an action that connects a subject to an object. Such a verb requires a direct object to complete meaning. A transitive relationship is one among three elements such that the relationship must hold between the first and third elements if it holds between the first and second and the second and third. An example of a transitive relationship is equality for numbers. Yet, despite the implication of connectedness in transitive when modifying verbs and relationships, a transitive thing is one involving transition. Indeed, transitive derives from the Latin transitivus, which means passing over. If there be lessons here, one of them must be that language is as complicated and full of mystery as life. 050601 ... . . 070219 ... unhinged when i look at you now, it doesn't feel the same. it can't be the same as it was back when we spent our waking lives together without the rest of the world. slowly, you beat it out of me; that silent and complete adoration i felt for you. i've grown tired of sharing you with the rest of them. it was better when we knew less about each other. it was better when we were the only two people in our own little world. i can't expect to get out of you what i don't want to give you in return. i want to rewind and go back to when the only thing that mattered between us was the present. 070221 what's it to you? who go blather from