CEBU, Philippines - Meeya Malinao, 16, started substituting the letter “S” with “X” and the letter “J” with “D” in her first year in high school. She says she got the texting style from her friends ...

As millions of Filipinos closely followed the Philippine election campaign, conduct, and results, another phenomenon by the name “jejemon” is stealing the spotlight for other Filipinos, especially ...

The Philippines is wrestling with what authorities say is a language monster invading youth-speak in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging. The phenomenon has triggered enormous ...

CEBU, Philippines - They have crept into text messages, social networking sites, and even some election campaigns. They’re everywhere (or so the haters say). What am I talking about? Well, the ...

The Philippines is trying to grapple with 'Jejemon', a cyber dialect now commonly being used in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging. The phenomenon has triggered enormous social ...

First, what is Jejemon? It refers to a special combination of internet and mobile phone language which is popularly used by young Filipinos today. Education officials are not happy over this Jejemon ...

The incoming vice president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is open to the use of the “jejemon" language in order to get the support of the Filipino youth in their fight ...

Liza Soberano on her "jejemon" photos: "I don't pose like that anymore." She adds that they bring "a lot of good memories back." PHOTO/S: Magandang Buhay / BJ Pascual Liza Soberano's photos from her ...

MY teacher in Literary History of the Philippines, the novelist B.S. Medina, Jr., once told our class that the history of Philippine writing is a history of subversion. It is a history of writers ...

For Emcee Rhenn and King Badger, members of the renowned hip-hop supergroup Ex Battalion, the recent “geng geng” discourse is a song they have already heard before—only in a slightly different ...