Student: „Teacher, which are the words I can say?“
Teacher: „You can say any word, Ragetsu. You see: Words are for everyone.“
Student: …
Teacher: „Yes, it can make one quite speechless, can it not.“
Student: „It is not that, teacher, which I was contemplating about.“
Teacher: „What was it then?“
Student: „It would have sounded more natural to me if you had said Lemmata are universal in their utterability, teacher.“
Teacher: „Yes, that is what I was saying.“
(aus: Kawasaki Saburō, Zen in Modern Japan)