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Here's an article on how "Jejemon" is and can potentially affect the outsourcing industry of the Philippines:

Philippine wrestles with 'Jejemon' cyber-dialect
by Jason Gutierrez – Tue Jun 15, 11:21 pm ET

Education Secretary Mona Valisno believes it could blunt the Philippines' edge in English proficiency, which has long helped the impoverished country attract foreign investment and sustain its lucrative outsourcing industry.

By the time full independence was gained in the mid-1940s, English was so widely spoken it subsequently became the medium of instruction in all schools and the unofficial second language next to Filipino.

But educators in recent years have lamented that spoken and written English appears to have deteriorated among the more than 90 million Filipinos.

One key indicator is that outsourcing firms that once relied on the pool of American-sounding Filipinos have recently reported a drop in recruitment.