Mar Roxas visited the University of San Jose–Recoletos (USJR), a private university in Cebu last November 12, 2015. He discussed his impending plans for the Philippines, as expected from a presidential candidate. However, Mar Roxas apparently joked by pronouncing “step by step” as “isteep bay isteep,” trying to do a Visayan accent impression. This was taken as a “bad joke” by his audience — a university with outstanding English speakers.
Kristian Caumeran corrected, “Sir, the Visayan term for “step by step” is “ginagmay’ng lakang.” He added, “But since you came from a superior dialect, we’ll just let this pass.”
Ms. Jessa deemed Roxas as, “such an arrogant person.” She also said that Mar Roxas was the first ever politician who made fun of the way they speak in English.
Do you think Mar Roxas’ joke was out of line? What do you think about this issue?
giatay ma si mar,
He’s definitely out of line. Nitpicking was at a wrong time and wrong audience. There are more important issues to talk about and if he can’t talk about any, he better stay home and get some sleep. The Cebuanos will surely not miss him!!!!
He’s from Capiz omg
I never knew that joke is offending… i mean most Filipinos joke about it. Even i admittedly do so… same thing when other race joke about Filipinos in general… if it’s not true, no need to be offended… especially if somehow there’s some truth in it. Find the fun in it.. but then again, thats just me
hahaha !!!!!!!! paktay ang pag-asa mo