Bus XCII

Louisa: Hi

Jack: Do you ever feel like we’re devaluing words through overuse?

Louisa: I only said ‘hi’

Jack: No, seriously. There are some words I’ve heard so many times they don’t even seem to mean anything anymore.

Louisa: I guess I know what you mean. Jane Salter called me a Fascist the other day cos I wouldn’t share my muffin with her.

Jack: And people casually fill up silences with mindless small talk

Louisa: So you’re moving to abolish small talk?

Jack: Maybe we just need new words. Ones with fresh meanings.

Louisa: Okay. Instead of ‘okay’, from now on we’ll say...

Jack: ‘Tüd’

Louisa: Random, but I like it

Jack: ‘Like’ can be...’yipyip’

Louisa: Tüd. What’s ‘dislike’?

Jack: ‘Nipnip’

Louisa: Too much like ‘yes’ and ‘no’

Jack: You’re right. How about ‘boogoo’?

Louisa: Tüd

Jack: We need some variation on tüd. It’ll get boring to say the same word all the time.

Louisa: Boogoo

Jack: That’s ‘dislike’

Louisa: I know, I'm vetoing your idea. We need to take it 'fugfug' for now. If these first words work out, we can 'moomoo' more later.

Jack: Tüd. Next we should probably have some words for ‘I’ and ‘you’.

Louisa: ‘I’ can be ‘pim’

Jack: And ‘you’ can be ‘din’

Louisa: ‘Tüdtüd’

Jack: ‘Super-okay’?

Louisa: Seemed logical

Jack: ‘Pimtüd’. ‘I agree’.

Louisa: And ‘pimyip’ can be ‘I like’. This is going tüdtüd so far.

Jack: People will think we’re ‘hemhem’ though

Louisa: ‘Pimboogoo’ people

Jack: We need a word for ‘people’

Louisa: ‘Dindies’?

Jack: That would be ‘you people’. We need ‘those people’.

Louisa: ‘Rindies’?

Jack: ‘Pimyip rin’. ‘Those’ and ‘that’ can double up for the moment.

Louisa: Tüd

Jack: We need a word for ‘our’, ‘us’, and ‘we’

Louisa: ‘Bim’

Jack: Tüdtüd

Louisa: Since bim saying ‘word’ so often...

Jack: ‘Word’ can be ‘gerty’. And ‘sentence’ can be ‘sabgerty’.

Scott enters

Scott: Hey guys

Louisa: We don’t have a greeting-gerty

Jack: I didn’t think bim need to greet rindies anymore

Louisa: Our greeting can be ‘jovo’

Jack: Pimyip rin

Louisa: Jovo, Scott

Scott: Huh?

Louisa: Bim moomoo new gerties. ‘We’re making up new words’.

Scott: Why?

Jack: To add more meaning to our sentences. Or should I say, ‘bim sabgerties’.