Sunday 12 March 2006

Narrator: A few days have passed. . . Planning continues.

Massey: You asked to see me, sir?

Tagon: I'm trying to go over this plan of yours, and I can't understand half the words you're using.

Massey: Oh. Sorry. Legalese is like that.

Tagon: "Concomitant." Isn't that a bird?

Massey: You're thinking of "cormorant." "Concomitant" means "occuring concurrently," or "attendant."

Tagon: Like the attendant who sells tokens for the HiTrans?

Massey: Umm. . . No. He would be a noun. I'm using an adjective.

Tagon: So we're not talking about a token selling bird, then.

Massey: How many words are you having trouble with, sir?

Tagon: Just the ones that I've highlighted.

Massey: I count at least a dozen, and I haven't gotten out of the first paragraph.

Tagon: That's as far as I got, too. I'm not sure you and I speak the same language.

Massey: This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination.

Massey: . . . Hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.

Tagon: Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.