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The Ten Commandments: Linguistic Universals
A Finite Set of Rules from Infinite Wisdom,
As Told To Moses by God

Evan Smith

  1. Thou shalt not talk with thy mouth full.

  2. Thou shalt capture all linguistically significant generalizations.

  3. Thou shalt invoke the cycle even as thou shalt invoke the Lord thy God.

  4. Thou shalt not order thy rules, save that thou find’st theoretical or empirical reason for so doing.

  5. Thou shalt not fudge thy data.

  6. Thou shalt call informants ‘consultants’.

  7. Thou shalt not write ad hoc rules.

  8. Thou shalt not falsify a theory save that it be falsifiable unto God.

  9. Thou shalt not edit thy field tapes, even if there be expletives therein.

  10. Thou shalt obey God’s Truth and not Hocus-Pocus.

An Iñupik Linguistic Fragment (or, the Last Grammarian)—Metalleus
On Defining the Blaspheme Revisited—Harvey Minkoff
Lingua Pranca Contents