Here's my JEJEMON piece.
When cellular phones came to be popular and the Philippines became the TXT (SMS) capital of the world, I was never into word shortcut (the usual text message) like "Hir na me, wer na U" for the simple reason that it caused me pain while reading.
Not only it's so difficult to comprehend them, it might lead to misunderstanding and miscommunication, defeating the purpose of having fast and easy communication by way of cellphones.
The shortcut messaging hit most of the students' (if not everybody's) ability to spell out words correctly, not to mention grammar. There was even an impression that the Philippines' diminishing performance in English is alluded to the proliferate use of shortcut SMS in cellphone communication.
Now here comes the attention-deficit creatures called Jejemons.
Whether it's a trip, it makes them happy, whatever it is they feel about it, surely Jejemons have added to the confusion of this already confused world.
They got the media's attention, all right. A success!
But lo and behold, jejemons do not live unchallenged. The so-called Jejemon Busters came to surface and raged the jejemon-tide.
And now, the busters have found an ally in the entire Department of Education as it pledged to smash, shatter, pulverize and totally annihilate this new-age paltry coterie. Happy busting! Good luck!
I am sure jejemon is an ephemeral pop culture. This counterproductive culture should be put to end soon. Having them around, infecting school children (and the nation as a whole) like incurable virus imperils not just the quality of students learning and knowing, but also our productivity and global competitiveness.
Jejemons cast out in the Name of ....
