"Attention, mes éleves!"

       My post about Spanish words yesterday reminded me of something delightful while driving a road through deep forest in Southern Canada.

       Warning signs can take time to read, and you might miss their important content flying by in an automobile.  Not this one.  This one was a cutout; the whole sign was jigsawed into the clear, unambiguous shape of an elk, antlers included, easily identifiable and visible from either direction you were traveling and from either side of the road.

       And on both sides of the sign was a single word:  "Attention," which sufficed for both English and French, perfect for Canada, the whole being unmistakable in its meaning, visually and linguistically, in a single glance:  "Look out for elk on the road!"