Should we eradicate jejemons? To answer, there should be a reasonable ground in doing so. Do we have the rights to? Does it cover our concern?
The first one to go against their existence is our Department of Education, or DepEd, with the parents who are concerned with their children's development. Jejemons arise as a result of teenagers, or at least the ones who think like them, who are continuously finding for an outlet for their creativity. Unfortunately, it goes with consequences. First, it degrades their lingual ability to construct sound sentences due to their creative language. Second is the indispensable consequence of misunderstanding even between themselves who are both using "Jejenese." The informality of the language compromises its flexibility and usability with any kind of conversation aside from texting. It doesn't have any rules on construction, thus the only way of learning it is by conversing with the members of the jejemon subculture.
How about freedom? Do we not have the right to do or speak the way we please? Of course, we have. As long as we don’t affect people's lives and do things at their expense. We should know ourselves and limitations of where and when it could be used. We have the freedom to be Jejemons unless it becomes an obstacle against our own development. In that case, we should think better of it and stick to "real" human languages instead.
Jejemons make life a bit colorful. They have found it to be an escape from the harsh and mundane world we live every day. Amidst the news of street rally, political warfare and wanton killing, Jejemons and the issues they tug behind them serve as our break and sometimes as a laughing matter that makes us relax from the day's works. In reality, we shouldn’t worry about them for long. They wouldn't last forever. It is like we are under a phase and soon it would pass just like the pop cultures of the past decades. We could just cherish them for they wouldn't be made without reason. We need balance and Jejemons seem to serve it well.
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