My friends and I were listening to Duterte's speech in the car last night, during the thanksgiving party in Davao, just so they can count how many P.I's he was going to say.
I only managed to catch the last five minutes of it, yet OMG - I have seen some of the world's best and most vulgar stand-up comedians and boy, they pale in comparison to our president! Even our own Vice Ganda pales so much in comparison in terms of the vulgarity of the choice of words!
I think it's even harder for us, Bisaya to listen to him since we understand it, and when it's spoken to you in your first language,it's like you were whiplashed!
I swear while I was listening to him, I was like, did he just say that? Did someone record this speech so I can listen to it again? Was that the word, blank and blank and blank used one after another?
Of course, you'd have to listen to how DU30 uses the words in context, but still, the imagery that he comes up with, just to stress a point, is something I haven't heard anyone use in my lifetime - especially from someone in authority - like your boss or your Dad or your Lolo.
There's no one quite like him.
Colorful is not even sufficient to describe it! I had to translate what he said to my friends, I translated it in English and even in English, it does sound a bit icky, sa Bisaya pa!
The reporters handling the Malacanang beat better have stomachs of steel! The pagmumura, I think, I can handle.
But the overtly sexual imagery, and the use of female and male genitalia in a very colorful context is something I have to get used to.
I'd hate to be a woman now handling the Malacanang beat! Siguro to prep you up, you have to listen to misogynistic black rappers para madesensitive ka sa kabastusan.
And I thought Madonna had a potty mouth na!
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