diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 933180a2..43b82e97 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ archive/** linguist-generated=true
 prototypes/** linguist-generated=true
 tools/iso/kernel.soso/** linguist-vendored
 # include the bulk of the repo with an approximately-correct language
-# just so it seems less like a purely C++ language
+# just so it seems less like a purely C++ project
+# unfortunately Linguist won't accept a spec for my toy languages
 *.subx linguist-language=Assembly
 *.mu linguist-language=Forth