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The Cantocore Import Opening went quite well as Lu blogged about on the Cantocore site, primarily in Chinese. Her photos also unveiled my installation, Artonomics #11: Special Economic Zone, which uses 24, 7 meter pieces of bamboo, constructed into a tower to hold a 1.6 meter by 1 meter LED sign, as often found in Chinese hospitals and government buildings, which displays common economic data that reigns down upon Chinese (and global) citizens about the direction of the new superpower.

linguistics professor and author shares a personal selection from the thousands of languages on the brink of disappearingHow about if we all volunteered to learn an endangered language? - You can put me down for Ket: Ket is the only Siberian language with a tone system where the pitch of the voice can give what sound like identical words quite different meanings. (Much like Chinese or Yoruba). To add to the difficulty for any westerner wishing to learn it, it also has extremely complicated word structure and grammar.