Anna Craycroft is writing A Weekly Correspondence in conjunction with her exhibition C’mon Language currently on view at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, June-September 2013. In each installment Craycroft integrates influences from her research with ideas presented by the different contributors to the exhibition. In this Correspondence #9 Craycroft illuminates Dewey’s cautionary advice using the linguistic sounds and symbols of the Khoisan language !Xóõ discussed in Gregory Anderson‘s lecture on endangered languages.