If it would be better in full prose rather than the script-like format, I can change it easily and add more description, or make any other suggested improvements!
[Translator's Note: In the tongue of the Atmorans and ancient Nords there was no requirement for marking of plurals or separation of nouns and adjectives, therefore some conflations and confusions were possible which are not so in our modern language. These linguistic features seem to form the basis of many of the arguments attributed to Athalormr, so we have tried to render the ambiguities faithfully in translation.]
Athalormr the Clever-Man, before he became the Lawspeaker of Hrothgar, was an ordinary merchant selling weapons and tools. One year he bought a large number of glass axes from an elven smith in Cyrodiil and transported them in a caravan of wagons to Haafingar. Along the way, he was stopped by a tax collector of Falkreath.
Tax Collector: The law states that all transportation of axes, adzes, rakes and ploughs along the roads of Falkreath incurs a tax of 35 drakes per item. How many of the aforesaid items are you transporting?
Athalormr: I don't have axes, adzes, rakes and ploughs. I only have glass axes.
Tax Collector: Don't joke. A glass axe is an axe, and an axe is subject to the tax.
Athalormr: Not so. An axe is an axe, and a glass axe is both glass and axe. If what I have are glass and axe, but not axe, adze, rake and plough, then how can I be taxed? One thing is added, and three are taken away.
Tax Collector: I don't have time for this. How many axes do you have?
Athalormr: I don't just have axes, I have glass axes. How can I count the glass and the axe? When adding two such different items something will surely be missed. Then, even having reached a total, to remove the glass from the axe is impossible. Furthermore, when someone asks for an axe, he usually expects it to be made of iron or steel. When asked for an axe, to give an iron or steel axe is perfectly acceptable. But when asked for a glass axe, to give an iron or steel axe is not acceptable. When asked for a glass axe, to give a glass axe is the only acceptable response. So to ask for an axe is not the same as to ask for a glass axe. If you ask me about glass axes, of course I will tell you what you need to know.
Tax Collector: Fine, fine, whatever. How many glass axes do you have?
Athalormr: I never heard any law about glass axes in Falkreath, only a law about axes, adzes, rakes and ploughs. If the law does not name my goods as subject to tax, then I will not pay.
[The end of this dialogue has not survived.]