Philippine Slanguages (Salitang Kanto, Conyo, Swardspeak, Wordplay, etc.)

[habagatcentral1]

O alpabetong bekimon tayo ha...

[Askal82]

Originally Posted by Maxxclip

by Emil Guillermo


CALIFORNIA, United States—Has the Philippines’ DepEd gone off the deep-end?

While everyone congratulates themselves in the Philippines about how the recently held elections were such a great success with only minor cases of vote fraud and malfeasance and just a few killings, the Department of Education knows what’s important.

It wants to put a stop to jejemon. (Is that a game show on TFC?)

No, no, no game show, pare.

Nor is Jejemon some failed candidate who whines incessantly about an inability to fabricate enough votes before the polls close. Jejemon is neither a person nor object. It’s a phenomenon in RP pop culture that involves those who text and tweet with glee simple things like: hapi 2 c u! (But more often a bit racier than that).

It’s a new language made up of mostly symbols and phonetics, and now the DepEd’s Mona Valisno is saying parents should keep their kids from falling into the jejemon trap before the youth forget how to spell actual words in English or Pilipino.

Oh yeah, like “taksi.” Or “elecksyon.”

Silly Sec. V. Must be contemplating higher office.

The reason jejemon thrives is basic. New media imposes economic and space restrictions on text messaging and twitter. Text services charge by the character. Twitter limits you to 140 characters. One becomes inventive, creative. The results are sometimes liberating, innovative. You could do jejemon. Or you could just tweet in Morse code.

I take jejemon.

Just think how Senate sessions would definitely be shorter if long-winded politicians would drop their florid talk as if they were speaking on a horse before a cavalry, and just text their thoughts to each other and the public? The communication may even inspire young people to get politically involved simply because they’re now communicating.

But jejemon is not seen as a public good, but rather as a threat to good English, to good jobs, to good lives. Hey, Sec. V. what’s next, accent cleansing too?

And then there’s another purpose of jejemon, to be the code of one’s youth. Every generation needs one. Otherwise they’d all be talking like adults. Still, we all know even old people text, so jejemon is just slightly more hip than eliminating all vowels. But hip nevertheless.

As a twitter-holic myself (follow me at www.twitter.com/emilamok), I’ve found it a challenge to twitter my thoughts. 140 characters means you don’t beat around the bush. Filipinos love the bush.

A shortened environment actually encourages deeper thought. A haiku (17 syllables) or a sonnet looks easy, but the format encourages economy and impact.

That’s why these jejemoners should be encouraged. Given their communication environment of text and tweets, they are definitely peso pinchers—to be commended for their budgeting prowess, not their illiteracy. They’re probably well suited for jobs as—government bean-counters. (Maybe even the top job in a corrupt democracy: vote-counter).

When you consider how in a nation of 7,100 islands, with practically a dialect in each barangay, what’s so bad about a new techie way of talking. The Ilocano still can’t talk to the Visayan without something they all can agree to. Why not Jejemon which is more instinctive than English. Remember “elecksyon?”

This perhaps is the most reprehensible part of the DepEd’s comments. It heralds English as the language of success. That may be the functional reality, but it is also the sad legacy of colonialism.

As an observer in America, I watch the Philippines because I want to see it grow and develop in the best possible way. I want Filipinos to speak their language and be successful in their own context, not in the context of a failed colony struggling to keep up in Asia.

I’d rather see the DepEd encourage pride in being Filipino rather than emphasizing English to such a great degree that it devalues being Filipino.

What does the English speaker with the good job and the good life end up doing?

Leaving the Philippines.

I think Jejemon is a form of counter-culture where the users find freedom in expressing their individuality in a society that puts too much pressure on too much commercialization and formalization of English and even proper Filipino because of their economic importance.

[mwg12a]

Originally Posted by habagatcentral1

O alpabetong bekimon tayo ha...

natatawa ako dito

[kiretoce]

THE TEN CONYOMANDMENTS

I. Thou shall make gamit “make+pandiwa.”

ex. “Let’s make pasok na to our class!”


II. Thou shall make kalat “noh,” “diba,” and “eh” in your pangungusap.

ex. “I don’t like to make lakad in the baha nga, no? Eh diba it’s like, so eww, diba?”


III. When making describe a whatever, always say “It’s SO pang-uri!”

ex. “You’re making me inggit naman. I’ll make bili nga my own burger.”


IV. When you are lalaki, make parang punctuation “dude,” “tsong,” or “pare.”

ex. “I know, tsong, I got bagsak nga in quiz one, eh.”


V. Thou shall know you know? I know right!

ex. “My bag is so bigat today, you know”


VI. Make gawa the plural of pangngalans like in English or Spanish.

ex. “I have so many tigyawats, oh!”


VII. Like, when you can make kaya, always use like. Like, I know right?

ex. “Yah! The aircon, it’s, like sira!”


VIII. Make yourself feel so galing by translating the last word of your sentence, you know, your pangungusap?

ex. “Kakainis naman in the LRT! How plenty tao, you know, people?”


IX. Make gamit of plenty abbreviations, you know, daglat?”

ex. “Like, OMG! It’s like traffic sa LRT”


X. Make gamit the pinakamaarte voice and pronunciation you have para full effect!

ex. “I’m, like, making aral at the Arrhneo!”

[noli-kun]

Mga salitang kanto na binaligtad at nanggaling sa binaligtad na mga salita: goli, ermats, erpats, boljak, bokal, modtaks, amats, koljak, tsikot, sitak, bomalabs, japorms, omads, repapips, yakang-yaka, yosi. Hmmm, ano pa ba? Paumanhin sa mga salitang balbal na ito:

[alheaine]

wis na ditetch meh nag post?

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by noli-kun

Mga salitang kanto na binaligtad at nanggaling sa binaligtad na mga salita: goli, ermats, erpats, boljak, bokal, modtaks, amats, koljak, tsikot, sitak, bomalabs, japorms, omads, repapips, yakang-yaka, yosi. Hmmm, ano pa ba? Paumanhin sa mga salitang balbal na ito:

Astig, erbaks, golets, ebak, joksay, jongget, tonguts

[epik ll ian]

Hate jejemon. It looks extremely uneducated, not too mention it looks more complicated and annoying.

[anak_mm]

lets switch to a modern baybayin.


para wala ng arte.. pampahaba ng pagbaybay ng mga salita

[alheaine]

grabe naman yan..parang napakahirap talaga gawin..lalo na kung mahilig ka mag send ng text message..hahahahaha..

[kiretoce]

Like, OMG! I wanna, like, make patay this tao! He's, like, making salita some alien language! ( )

[kenken94]

I don't know that. LOL!

Despite being a teenager myself, conversation with peers are in full English specially around the university and occasionally, Filipino too.

[kiretoce]

N4maxon s3cUriT Xp3rt$ hv fawnd a c3rtN UsfLn3$$ N "jejetyping" N da kr3axon of $trong pa$$word$ 4 USR logNs.

(translation: "Information security experts have found a certain usefulness in "jejetyping" in the creation of strong passwords for user logins.")

[alheaine]

that's awesome..

[alheaine]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

Like, OMG! I wanna, like, make patay this tao! He's, like, making salita some alien language! ( )

ang galing naman niya.. andami kong tawa..

he was so like galing in speaking like that..

[alheaine]

meron pa siyang part 2?!

[kiretoce]

How To Speak Like A Teenage Conyo 101 looks more like "How To Sound Like A Retard With A Speech Impediment 101."

[hugodiekonig]

gaylingo and words such as chibog - to eat, syota - girlfriend, tsiks - girlfriend, etc

[Planning Democracy]

That ain't gay lingo, I think that's jeproks language back in the 70s.

Some terms from Goodah!:

"Good for every all"

"Open 25 hours"

"Sogbu sa rapsa"

"Todits ang order"

"!!!" --> signage for the CR

"Matsala sa yoi"

How come nobody uses "Dehin" anymore?? Magamit nga ulit.