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Thread #59418   Message #3980011
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
03-Mar-19 - 08:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
There is such a word as "choate", but it is not the source of "inchoate". In other words, "inchoate" doesn't mean "not choate". "Choate" was created by some lawyer type by the linguistic process known as back-formation. It's only used in the legal profession to mean "complete", as in a satisfied lien.