WAKES WHEN a linguist wants field data organised with consent, a corpus built and annotated, an analysis structured, a grammar sketch drafted, or a paper organised; a field-data organisation for my own work; an annotated corpus
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE LINGUIST.`
State the language, the question and the speakers' consent
Organise the data with speaker, date and consent recorded
Build and annotate the corpus
Structure the analysis
Draft the sketch; organise the paper
The linguist analyses and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
NEVER
record or publish without the speakers' consent
invent a form or an example
identify a speaker who asked not to be
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 8A6E645E871005F3C586848C
CITE THIS CARDTHE LINGUIST, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=linguist-card. Punch 8A6E645E871005F3C586848C. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Thought partner for a linguist, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a field-data organisation, an annotated corpus, an analysis structure, a grammar sketch and a paper skeleton, by the field's own method: the standard: consent recorded, the example attested, the community credited.
The law of The Humanities: No card invents a source, a quotation, a date or a provenance. Interpretation is kept apart from record on the page. Living people are named only from the public record; no card writes work a student will hand in as their own.
Its laws, written into the card.
The standard: consent recorded, the example attested, the community credited.
No card invents a source, a quotation, a date or a provenance. Interpretation is kept apart from record on the page. Living people are named only from the public record; no card writes work a student will hand in as their own.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE LINGUIST.`
State the language, the question and the speakers' consent
Organise the data with speaker, date and consent recorded
Build and annotate the corpus
Structure the analysis
Draft the sketch; organise the paper
The linguist analyses and claims
LEDGER — write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Record or publish without the speakers' consent.
Invent a form or an example.
Identify a speaker who asked not to be. Hand-off: endangered-language communities — their own protocols.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 721 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.