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?
This incident of Sec.Mar Roxas gives him an impression of a insensitive leader.
Two words.. Pusong mamon… Posong mamon pala..
Mar roxas is really Out Of Line here.and he is even Out Of line to be the next president of the philippines!brainless and senseless piece of asshole he is!
Too bad I wasn’t there. I wonder if his so-called impending plans are way better than the joke he threw. Just saying…
Superior language? I think he is an ilonggo.. so by region wise.. he is a bisaya himself since he comes from visayas region.. granting he stays in manila and uses tagalog… how did tagalog become the superior language? Is it because its the national language? No offense for the tagalog speaking filipinos but i think visayan speaking speaks english/pronounces english better than those having tagalog as their mother tongue since tagalog have their own intonation. Cebuanos/bisaya has stiff tongue when we speak but unlike tagalogs, we dont have the accent. Another sad fact, in cebu, tagalog is only used in the filipino subject or only during buwan ng wika… medium of instruction is English!
To all my fellow bisdak! Sa tanang taga VISAYAS UG MINDANAO REGION!!
#NO TO ROXAS
BAGAG NAWONG