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’.
