Now, I’ve been told by my Filipino literature back in college that a language is considered to be a “living language” when it is constantly evolving. Just take a look at the Latin language; it has stopped evolving hundreds of years ago and is now considered as a “dead language”.
Enter the “Jejemons“. They have been in the news this past few weeks because of their allegedly “horrendous“ acts towards our national language – Filipino. Chances are, you have already read one of their nearly-unreadable sentences in the internet and/or in your text messages.
So what’s with these Jejemons anyway?
I think I will not delve in deeper on the “what are Jejemons ?” topic. straightforward, Jejemon is defined by Urbandictionary.com as one ;
who has managed to subvert the English language to the point of incomprehensibility and online lynch squads.
But of course, Jejemons are not limited on the English language. As I have stated, Jejemons are also wrecking havoc in the Filipino language. Here’s an example of a filipino sentence murdered through a Jejemon sentence;
“3ow ph0w, mUsZtAh nA?” – Hello po, kamusta na?
See? Here’s another one, a Jejemon-induced english sentence;
“i wuD LLyK tO knOw moR3 bOut u. crE 2 t3ll mE yur N@me? jejejejeje!”
The sentence above, when translated into readable english is ;
“I would like to know more about you, care to tell me your name? Hehehehe!”
Pretty confusing isn’t it? A lot of people are hating these Jejemons that they went as far as making websites and Facebook pages just to “condemn” these Jejemons.
Personally, I am awe-struck with these Jejemons. I’ll make a new post regarding my reaction toward this “Jejemon phenomena“. (This post has become pretty long – and I am only at the “introduction” part of the Jejemon topic!) 
Before I end this post, let me share to you a quick video report about the Jejemons (The whole video is in Filipino).
How about you? What do you think about the Jejemons? Do their language affect you in someway? share your experiences!
there are lots of social issues these days mostly due to our culture and economic situation,~’