What can you say about the new text language called "Jejemon"?
By ancel_rdd
@ancel_rdd (111)
Philippines
July 17, 2010 6:29am CST
Jejemon language is from the root word "jeje" and "mon". Jeje is from the standard text "hehe" which jejemons (people who use the jejemon language) substitute into "jeje" and mon from pokemon. Jejemons text by shortcutting words but most of the time they used numbers and letters interchangeably for example 4 as A and using letters like z,c,h,o,u,s as additives. They tend to lengthen their text. To them its is a fun way of texting. To some bloggers jejemons are good in retaining words spelling in their mind that they can turn them into long letter word. Some even say that most of the jejemons are poor for they use this texting language by registering in unlimited text. To some point the root word of jejemon is said to be "jejerius", a greek word which means doer or worker of Satan. This is somewhat alarming to me as a Christian. But I also thought that the proponents of the jejemon language are not that smart to put satanic messages and essence to this language. To the Department of Education it is a unacceptable language and a threat to the spelling and grammar of students, teachers are advised by DepEd to encourage students used whole words in texting. So what can you say about Jejemon.
5 responses
@dfhonline (130)
• Philippines
18 Jul 10
is it?
i heard that there are some variation of it already, like dedemon.. similar to babytalk.. like "para" is typed as "pawa".
it took me 10mins to fully understand a 3 sentence paragraph with dedemon style.
@ancel_rdd (111)
• Philippines
18 Jul 10
Many people wants to be unique and texting is one of their expression of being different. This dedemon is new to me. Thanks dfhonline for informing us
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
I often received text in jejemon style, sometimes I hate it because it is often hard to comprehend and very misleading. I rarely text because I don't want to spend huge amount in texting, but every time I texted others, I really have to type it completely or with words that can be understood, I am afraid if I will shorten it too much my message would not be understood by the other party.
@ancel_rdd (111)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
It is nice that you text in complete words. Texting in the usual tagalog or english context can help to retain spelling correctly. It easy to comprehend and the accepted texting style by educators.
@dorisday1971 (5657)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
I don't like that jejemon fad.
Texting the jejemon way is sometimes quite confusing for me to read.
Why not stick to the normal english context?
@ancel_rdd (111)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
Experts say that in some time people will forget it but can be revive in some time too but people will not be fanatical as today. Yes it is confusing because they tend to lengthen word bu using numbers and letters. Maybe for jejemons the normal english context is plain and not hip. To them jejemon is cool and in.
@dfhonline (130)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
I dont like it :(
I think its useless and annoying.
People who use it are so inconsiderate of others, its so hard to read
@ancel_rdd (111)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
Some blogger say that jejemons know the correct spelling and has good memory retention of the word and creatively lengthen it using letters, numbers, and symbols. But I think it is pointless to confuse the reader and exert time and energy just to text in jejemon. The shortened texting language is made to save time and text faster but jejemon is used to lengthen it. The jejemons are generalized as having low IQ, poor, and jologs.
@ancel_rdd (111)
• Philippines
17 Jul 10
Some blogger say that jejemons know the correct spelling and has good memory retention of the word and creatively lengthen it using letters, numbers, and symbols. But I think it is pointless to confuse the reader and exert time and energy just to text in jejemon. The shortened texting language is made to save time and text faster but jejemon is used to become hip and cool. The jejemons are generalized for having low IQ but I think it is unfair to them.
