Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his -- ahem -- colorful language, swears he's going to stop swearing.
以——咳咳——丰富多彩的语言而著称的菲律宾总统罗德里格•杜特尔特发誓说他再也不骂粗话了。
The inspiration for cleaning up his vocabulary came from God himself, Duterte said, as he was flying back to the Philippines from a state visit to Japan.
杜特尔特说，这是在他对日本进行国事访问后飞回菲律宾时从上帝那里得来的启示。
"Everybody was asleep, snoring, but a voice said... "If you don't stop (cursing), I will bring this plane down now." And I said, "Who is this?" So, of course, it's God," the President recounted after he landed Thursday at Davao International Airport.
"So I promised God not to express slang, cuss words and everything," said Duterte -- who recently questioned the existence of God -- adding that a "promise to God is a promise to the Filipino people."
Duterte's vernacular has grabbed global headlines for its lack of, well, decorum.
杜特尔特总是因为他说的，呃，不加修饰的话而占据全球媒体的头条。
He infamously called both President Barack Obama and Pope Francis a "son of a bitch," declared that the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines was a "gay son of a bitch" -- adding that the ambassador had "pissed him off" -- and told the European Union to "f*ck off," accompanied by the universally understood hand gesture.
