Inchoate - Sheldon® Comic Strip

PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, leans against a rock holding a dark blue book with his feet. He turns to speak to SHELDON, a ten year old boy with large glasses, leaning against the other side of the rock, reading from a brown book.
ARTHUR: ??? You ever hear of the word “inchoate”?
SHELDON: Inchoate? What’s an inchoate?

PANEL 2: Closer in on ARTHUR has he puts his beak in the book to read.
ARTHUR: EXACTLY! There’s no way “inchoate” is a real word. It sounds like a rash from pond water.

PANEL 3: Even closer in on ARTHUR as he looks up to think.
ARTHUR: Or a line of kelp-based organic lozenges. Or an artisanal beverage made from dried chia seeds. Or a distinctly French type of existential dread.

PANEL 4: ARTHUR returns to reading, SHELDON looks up from his book.
ARTHUR: Anyway, I REFUSE to look up the definition. Who has the time, with all the taxes we need to inchoate.
SHELDON: I inchoated an ENTIRE bean-and-cheese burrito once.

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