Curse words, rebels, US top list of buzz words from SONA 2017 — analysis

Redacted profanities dominated the transcript of President Rodrigo Duterte's second State of the Nation Address.

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In an infographic released by advocacy group Dakila — crosschecked with the full text of Duterte's speech — it's revealed that the President uttered a total of 26 profanities.

This includes the curse words "p***ng *na", "y*wa", and "g*ngg*ng."

Duterte also spoke frequently about rebels and the US.

Completing the list of the frequently uttered words are "Killings", "Davao", "Change", "Mindanao", "Media", "Marawi", and "President" (referring to himself).

Their analysis also revealed that Duterte discussed "good governance" the most, speaking on the topic for more or less 16 minutes.

Coming in second is the 13 minutes he spent addressing or attacking his critics.

Duterte also spoke at length about Social Services (9.63 minutes), Mining (9.1 minutes), Killings (6.93 minutes), Environment (6.1 minutes), War on Drugs (5.71 minutes), and Infrastructure (4.8 minutes).

"For the last 5 years, Dakila has been using word counts to show which were the important points in a president’s speech, with the assumption that a person talks more about something that is important to him," Dakila Creatives Director Andrei Venal said in a statement shared with GMA News Online via Facebook messenger.

He added, "Now we tried using the length of the longest SONA so far after the 1986 EDSA revolution, to show the length of time the president talks about a certain issue. At the end of the day actions still speak louder than words but this breakdown provides an insight into which are the important things and the priorities of our President.”

Communications Director Cha Roque additionally said that the group conducted interviews with people from public markets, picket lines, and other areas to talk to people from different sectors and ask them how life was for them in the past year of “change.”

"Through the stories and statements that we have compiled, we hope that the people would reflect on the current situation of our country — if our administration has been promoting these principles, and if not, what can we do about it?” she said.

Dakila, founded in 2005, is an artist collective that promotes modern day heroism. — AT/LA/KVD, GMA News