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If your vocabulary includes words like “inchoate”
You’re well spoken,though you don’t know it.
For it’s neither Hebrew nor Greek,
It’s Latin you speak.
That’s alright for us proles and the poets.
Though Hebrew is older I think
As are nonverbal cues such as winks.
Do baboons sigh and grumble
As one start to mumble:
I think your new fur should be pink.
Aramaic is hardly spoken today…
So where did it vanish away?
Imagine if our tongue
Was silent thus half wrong.
Aramaic ‘s still useful for prayer.
How my heart sings 
It’s strange – ‘inchoate’ is a word that I’ve come across, though I can’t think where, and had ‘sensed’ the meaning. I had a feeling it might be Eliot but, although I haven’t found it in his work, I see that it is a word often applied to his writing!
I also came across the book ‘The Coherence of the Inchoate: Children and the Internet’ by Albin Wallace, which quotes Eliot at the beginning : “In order to arrive at what you do not know ¦ You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.”
So, it seems that I had caught the sense of it but don’t know how! There are strange patterns in language that we sometimes discern in a seemingly sub-conscious way.
2Thanks,Mike.I had a feeling I did know what it meant but I could not put it into words so I decided to substitute it for “Word of the Day”.I am glad you enjoyed thinking around it.I sometimes read and re-read books which I don’t fully understand like about the crossing from non verbal to verbal in children or in culture,or about the mind and body and how one may express what the other can’t.I must get something out of them but what?We don’t always know what our minds are wanting or doing or should I say “selves”? Searching for some understanding
A not unfamilar word for me…..so useful when bored with ‘premature’…. 😉
The more words the better