Sally Caves:
>...> There was another one, really quite beautiful but probably too long to be a
> witty slogan, and not witty enough: it's attributed to Vladimir Illich-Svitych,
> who invented it for translation into Nostratic, and it provided us with a
> translation contest:
>
> Language is a ford through the river of time.
> It leads us to the dwelling of the Dead,
> But he cannot arrive there who fears deep water.
That's really pretty.
Would it go well on a tshirt though, compared to something more slogan
/ mottolike like Ellen's "Your world / your language / your rules"
suggestion?
- Sai