Jeproks, Jologs & Jejemons

In the 70s, Jeproks was the “in” thing. If you were to listen to Mike Hanopol’s famous song “Laki sa Layaw Jeproks!”, you will figure out the pinoy slang as referring to somebody coming from an affluent family who’s leading a carefree lifestyle. In short – a good-for-nothing bum.

“Its etymology may have been the combination of the local vehicle "Jeep" and the musical genre "Rock". Jeep-rock is not a famous word but Philippine jeepneys are known to follow the career of local rock singers and turn on their radio speakers very loud to attract young passengers to ride.” – from a certain Mary Magdalene is my mom (Yahoo! Answers)

I checked out urbandictionary.com and it says:

“A Filipino slang term for anyone hailing from the projects. Often stereotyped as the cooler, more laid back, and savagely street smart bunch. Almost parallel to being "hood" as Americans would say.”

Example: “The way you smooth talked that cop into letting us of the hook was so Jeproks!”

In the 90s, another street-slang came out of every yuppy’s mouth – Jologs. I’ve read somewhere it was derived from Jolina (Magdangal) and Itlog thus the term “Jologs”, referring to somebody tacky or anybody associated with stuff that are mainly for the masses. In other words, baduy.

Again from urbandictionary.com:

1. Derived from the combined words daing (salted fish), tuyo (a type of dried fish) and itlog (egg). Dyolog then became Jolog, a term for someone who is tacky, but implied in a more negative tone and often referred to people who belong to the lower class of society.
2. "Baduy", "skwating", tacky
3. Someone who likes Jolina Magdangal (a tacky, teeny-bopper wannabe)
4. Anything or anyone associated with things that are "pang-masa" (for the masses)

Example: “ABS-CBN is so jolog. And Judy Ann Santos is just about the queen of jologs. Well... second to Jolina anyway.”

Recently, another alien term has been coming out from the internet – Jejemon. Having absolutely no idea what the hell Jejemon means, I dug it out again over urbandictionary.com:

1) Usually seen around social networking sites such as Friendster and Multiply, Jejemons are individuals with low IQs who spread around their idiocy on the web by tYpFing LyK diZS jejejeje, making all people viewing their profile raise their eyebrows out of annoyance. Normal people like you and me must take a Bachelor of Arts in Jejetyping in order to understand said individuals, as deciphering their text would cause a lot of frustration and hair pulling.

CAUTION: THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE BREEDING! THEY CAN BE SEEN WRECKING GRAMMATICAL HAVOC ON FACEBOOK TOO!

2) Basically anyone with a low tolerance in correct punctuation, syntax and grammar. Jejemons are usually hated or hunted down by Jejebusters or the grammar nazi to eradicate their grammatical ways.

Example:

miSzMaldiTahh111: EoW pFuOh!
You: Huh?
miszMaldiTahh111: i LLyK tO knOw moR3 bOut u, PwfoH. crE 2 t3ll mE yur N@me? jejejejeje!
You: You are a jejemon! Don't talk to me, you uneducated retard!
miszMaldiTahh111: T_T

It also says:

a person WhO tyPeZ lYKeS tH1s pfOuh.. whether you are RICH, MIDDLE CLASS or POOR ifpK eU tYpE L1K3 tHiS pfOuh..eU are CONSIDERED AS JEJEMON.

Tsk tsk tsk. After having befriended the urbandictionary.com for half a day, I can still put up with being called Jeproks and even Jologs but certainly not Jejemon. Shucks, how am I supposed to impart this to my friends who love to write tHeIr ShOuToUtS lIkE tHiS?