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MARTEN: I wish to file a complaint about this parrot. It seems to be dead.
SHOPDUDE: I'm sorry dude, but that's a guitar.
MARTEN: No it's not! I bought it here just half an hour ago and you assured me it was a parrot!
SHOPDUDE: Look dude, it's a GUITAR. It has strings and everything.
MARTEN: Strings? No, that's its cage.
SHOPDUDE: Again, strings. Look, there's 8 of them.
MARTEN: Aha! Got you there! Guitars have 6 strings, so this can' t be a guitar. It's a parrot, I say! And it has ceased to be!
SHOPDUDE: It's called an 8-string guitar.
MARTEN: No it isn't! There's no such thing! It is a parrot! An ex-parrot!
SHOPDUDE: Yes it is!
MARTEN: Got ya! Now can I have my money back?
SHOPDUDE: <sigh> Yeah, it's a parrot, whatever. Why don't you go to the pet shop down the road?
MARTEN: This is not a pet shop?