You’ll Be A Master Polyglot Once You’ve Signed Up To Be A Member Of The Language-Of-The-Month Club—Bruno Dončikov Son of Lingua Pranca Contents Expansions of Murphy’s Law for Linguists (mostly)—Metalleus

O Science Method

Neo-Bloomfieldians were bad enough:
level parsimony and all that stuff!
But Science Method—O sacred cow!
You’ve really got the linguists now.

Why is holy bovine’s last reliance
always on some poor social science
that doesn’t know its own behind
from the whole of physics and its kind?

The Method only knows, I trust
how much others might have learned from us,
for while we Popper our Martinet
the physicists read Bergson and Dupré.


Metalleus

You’ll Be A Master Polyglot Once You’ve Signed Up To Be A Member Of The Language-Of-The-Month Club—Bruno Dončikov
Expansions of Murphy’s Law for Linguists (mostly)—Metalleus
Son of Lingua Pranca Contents