jabberwocky
This excellent word was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Outside of Alice's adventures jabberwocky refers to meaningless speech or writing, jibberish. I rather think of jabberwocky as one's secret creative language and individual word-choice habits. We speak in this language when we have a brilliant epiphany about something, try to explain it to the first person who will listen and realize that said thought hasn't translated properly into English. It comes out garbled and giddy, and our listener is confused, and looks about ready to say "Are you speaking in tongues?" Such is the essence of art: ineffable.
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