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I Flaunt My Bisaya Accent While Speaking Tagalog

By ⋅ March 5, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

I don’t hide my thick Bisaya accent when I speak Tagalog, even when I am in Manila. I’m just confident. Just like Sir Manny Pacquiao. I also don’t work for the hecklers, they don’t pay me to change my accent to sound like those first speakers of Tagalog. If Manileños (or even a few Bisaya) [...]

Showtime Made Fun Again of a Bisayan Pronunciation

By ⋅ February 7, 2012 ⋅ 8 comments

Manila media is at it again. Showtime’s Kim Atienza host who’s fond of making fun of Bisaya pronunciations and accents, just made a joke out of a Boholano guest inside the studio who uttered “noybe” which is nine in English,  nueve in Spanish and nuwebe in Tagalog. The main star of the show Vice Ganda [...]

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