InCipient. Incipient means emerging, developing, or initial. Usage: “Don’t be a hater; this blog is still only in an incipient state.”
Not to be confused with:
InSipient. Insipient means stupid or foolish. Usage: “Mike, quit playing around with your insipient blogs and get down here” (My wife Lisa says this nearly every day)
Insipient is based on Insipid, with means “dull or without flavor”. Usage: "My 1 year old rambunctious Labrador, Frieda, refuses to eat her dog food, which she considers to be insipid; she prefers instead whatever it is that I am eating"
Which reminds me, Cip and Cep, which take the same meaning as cap and capt are English word roots based on the Latin word Capio, which means "hold," "take," "seize." When writing you want to capture, or "seize", your audiences imagination or thought process. This may be perfectly legitimate, whereas deception is a similar word that indicates you have "taken" them by fraud. Good con artists know how to captivate their mark (unsuspecting victim), that is they "hold" them with charm.
The movie Inception, with Leonardo DeCaprio, is based on the premise that the protagonist has a method to travel into his target's mind through a shared dream, where he is free from the normal restraints of time and space, to plant an idea, to manipulate an action in the "real" world, to capture a prize. In this movie the use of "Inception" is the ultimate form of deception, however we learn this space poses as great a risk to the deceiver as to the deceived, for the very reason that it is effective in the first place- it is shared.
Are you as confused as I? We must "take hold" of some fixed object to remind us where we are so so we can return to "reality." For me that object is my handy dictionary, which brings me back.
According to Webster's Dictionary, Inception means, "an act, process, or instance of beginning (alpha, birth, dawn, genesis)," and this will blow your mind: objective means, "relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence" or "relating to, or being an object or phenomenon in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind."
I guess all I need to do is find a way to convince my puppy that her dog food is objectively tasty.
The movie is long, however it is worth it- it is definitely not insipid.
