Global Crossing also said it had based its long-term leases on an arcane interpretation of Statement 66, a rule for recognizing profit or loss from sales of real estate developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the group that sets accounting standards for business.
And it won't be the last time that China faces such a test: in the arcane language of international diplomacy, the statement concluded, "The Security Council remains seized of the matter".
The less obvious fees -- such as those for the fund portfolio's brokerage commissions, for soft dollar arrangements, and other arcane operations -- can be buried in Statements of Additional Information, which are impenetrably thick documents often found only online.
In each world, public statements have often been veiled in arcane and abstruse language, so that any plain, blunt speaking comes as a refreshing break.
"Arcane public health policies treat medical cannabis patients as drug abusers," Levine said in a statement.
The announcement was the clearest statement so far of De Beers's resolve to keep illicit stones out of its arcane selling process.
The dispute may seem arcane.
An arcane one: 37signals.
