Linguistics has always looked like this: black ink on plain paper, ruled cells, place across the columns and manner down the rows. The Voyager Golden Record and its aluminium cover add the only metal — a thin anodised gold, matte, never mirrored.

Everything here is a working document. Specimens are plotted and tabulated, never drawn freehand. Confidence is stated as a fraction. Every claim carries its counter-evidence in the outer margin, because a hypothesis with no falsification column is not a finding, it is a guess.