His tweet had a grammatical error, wherein he had used ‘whom’ in place of ‘who’, and Twitter users pounced on it to make corrections. And in the beginning of this year, Twitter finally had a chance to get back at all the time they couldn’t understand the ‘Tharoorian’ English. A part of his tweet read, ‘I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea i want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones.’ But even this tweet became a joke as people began wondering what ‘rodomontade’ means. New Delhi, May 31 Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for throwing in rarely-used English words into Twitter lexicon, on Tuesday shared his word of the eradoomscrolling. In December, he decided to respond to people who often send him parodies and joke about his writing style. In the past year, Shashi Tharoor has introduced us to several new words and is often credited for enhancing the vocabulary of the nation. If you were to make it 21, What word would that be? □□ Rajeev Batra JanuAnd posed a challenge for Tharoor: Sandeep Jha JanuGlad it reached Tharoor:Īnd isn’t it so apt it has come to you…:) Glad to know the meaning of each of these seemingly incomprehensible words! □ Rahul JanuSome were just glad to understand the meaning: Namrata JanuSome said it could be Tharoor himself: Sir somebody is giving you tough competion □ Shashi Tharoor JanuHere is how the Twitterati responded: In a strongly worded, and impressively verbose, response on Twitter and Facebook. Earlier this year, Tharoor, while talking about a journalist tweeted out and said, Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations & outright lies. This probably impressed Tharoor and prompted him to share it on Twitter. Shashi Tharoor's use of the word 'farrago' in response to a TV anchor's allegations confounds everyone. The twentieth word of this sentence comprises 20 letters, which is one of the longest rhopalic sentences. The sentence is an example of a rhopalic sentence, i.e., each word contains one letter, or one syllable, more than the previous word. Little did he know that his advice-of-sorts would be turned on its head Enter Shashi Tharoor. Quite a feat!’ The message reads, “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunication’s incomprehensibleness.” Reportedly, this is a sentence taken from Dmitri Borgmann’s book Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote the beloved Shakespeare. Shashi Tharoor shared the message on Twitter on January 7 with a caption, ‘Received on whats app. 'Ambedkar: A Life' - Shashi Tharoor Remembers Babasaheb As 'First Male Feminist' At Jaipur Literature Festival 2023.Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 Day 2: A Confab On Culture, Music, Democracy Takes Centre Stage.Indian And Pakistani Students Together Roast English Moderator During 1957 Debate | Watch Viral Video.
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