Inchoate yearning...Rachel that was some piece of...university level speech

[nadinbrzezinski]

As I write some folks are looking for a dictionary...maybe.

[Sonoman]

1. Is that like...

being cold and wishing you had a jacket?

If I had a dictionary, I would look it up. I'll just wait for Sig Other to come home and explain it to me.

Sonoman

[asdjrocky]

2. You do have a dictionary you know.

It lives inside your computer on the google.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Here, from dictionary.com

in·cho·ate   
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–adjective
1.
not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
2.
just begun; incipient.
3.
not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
Origin:
1525–35;  < L inchoātus,  var. of incohātus  ptp. of incohāre  to begin, start work on, perh. equiv. to in- -in- 2  + coh ( um ) hollow of a yoke into which the pole is fitted + -ātus -ate1

—Related forms
in·cho·ate·ly, adverb
in·cho·ate·ness, noun

—Can be confused:   inchoate, innate (see synonym note at innate).

[Gabi Hayes]

4. In-choate-us interrupt-us?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=1

If you’re a lawyer presenting an oral argument before Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court, never, ever use the word choate. No, not the name Choate (rhymes with “boat”), which graces a Connecticut prep school and the great 19th-century jurist Rufus Choate. The taboo term is choate (pronounced KOH-it or KOH-ate), an adjective defined by Webster’s New World Law Dictionary as “completed or perfected in and of itself” and formed as the opposite of inchoate (“commenced but not completed, partially done”).

A lawyer named Randolph Barnhouse learned this lesson the hard way in November when he appeared before the Supreme Court as counsel to a company selling tax-free cigarettes over the Internet. Barnhouse said the opportunity to recover taxes on the cigarettes was an “inchoate” interest, not yet fully formed. “Any recovery would not be property until it became choate, until there was an amount of money assigned to it,” he explained.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. An-us Gigant-us Scali-us?

[Canuckistanian]

6. I'd love to kick some inchoate ass

Like Rachel does.....