Shashi Tharoor's Post Made People Search for Dictionary!
Jun 15, 2020
Shashi Tharoor once again wooed the world with his impeccable English and rich vocabulary. The MP was compared with a character in a recent web-series and a comedian, Saloni Gaur shared a hilarious video which initiated a funny thread on Twitter.
Is Chandrachur Tharoor or Tharoor Chandrachur?Nevermind. pic.twitter.com/gUU3BeqPgu
— Saloni Gaur (Nazma Aapi) (@salonayyy) June 13, 2020
Hansal Mehta, a film director, retweeted the video and asked Shashi Tharoor if he has watched the video yet.
This is quite brilliant. @ShashiTharoor have you seen this? https://t.co/C5RoHjlOF2
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) June 13, 2020
While replying to the director's tweet, Shashi Tharoor used certain words that people couldn't understand.
Flattered by the comedic imitation. However, I would like to believe that I am not such a garrulous sesquipedalian... Clearly the artiste on the screen does not suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 13, 2020
People joked about this complex sentence before reaching for their dictionaries. Here is what netizens had to say.
— Faad Dunga BC (@naalaYUCK) June 13, 2020
Me trying to find the meaning of those two word pic.twitter.com/jAYZZopxHQ
— Folitically (@folitically) June 13, 2020
— Anime (@naruhina_07) June 13, 2020
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia to garrulous sesquipedalian pic.twitter.com/X4ccWm9lp7
— Lazy Cat ???? (@uPoliticat) June 13, 2020
Saving everybody's time. pic.twitter.com/NfOW3P7Lya
— The Indian Smog (@theindiansmog) June 13, 2020
Did you reach for your dictionary too?