Being that yesterday was “Thai Language Day,” it wasn’t a surprise to see a story announcing the death of said language.
According to The Nation’s “Most Thais blame Line, Facebook for wrong usage of Thai language,” nearly 56 percent of people were totally unaware that July 29 is Thai Language Day. A certain sign of literacy’s collapse!
As soon as humans discovered language and began using words, someone started complaining about its death. Certainly we look back with wonderment at the artful prose of our 19th Century forebears compared to our time’s “lolwut?” discourse.
But a century ago people had nothing to do but sit around reading and writing. Nothing to Tweet or Instagram.
Acquiring a book meant saddling the carriage or buffalo and traversing to the nearest outpost or monastery.
Yet in the here and now, consuming anything less than a gigabyte of information each day is just lazy.
According to the Nation, nearly 85 percent of those surveyed said the Thai language is “in crisis.”
Surely none of those was ever involved in a group chat sticker war, or romantic exchange of only bunnies and bears.
Communication isn’t going away, but it is accelerating and morphing. Soon we won’t need words, and real conversation will be replaced by: SadBear!, HungryCat! and SchadenfreudeBunny!
Better yet let’s 
These words are a burden!
