![]() Shashi Tharoor 5 October 2018 Tintin, who is a journalist asks Haddock to "stop following that Tharoor fella". (Source: Shashi Tharoor/Facebook, KTRoffice/ Twitter) Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher floccinaucinihilipilification. The meme has understandably gone viral.Īs a childhood Tintin fan in both English & French, I love this! (Don't take the advice too literally though!) /kNeSqYmzIY The friendly banter on Twitter left netizens in splits. ![]() 'The act of continuously seeking out and reading bad news,' read the meaning posted by the Congress leader. ![]() The man of many words helpfully shared the meaning too. Some wondered if Tharoor was a paid agent of dictionaries, others said he should. He inserted Shashi Tharoor "exasperating farrago of distortions" rant into a speech bubble which shows Captain Haddock saying it. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for throwing in rarely-used English words into Twitter lexicon, on Tuesday shared his 'word of the era' - doomscrolling. Twitter users were torn between amusement, admiration and expending effort looking up what the word actually means. ![]() And this exactly what this Twitter user named Mixed Raita tapped into and made a meme that will rule the Internet for quite some time now. In a strongly worded, and impressively verbose, response on Twitter and Facebook. "Blistering barnacles" and "thundering typhoons", is you are a Tintin fan you'd know Captain Haddock's love for spilling out Gibberish. By India Today Web Desk: When a newly launched TV channel resorted to salacious reporting on the Sunanda Pushkar murder case, Congress leader Shahi Tharoor came out with dictionaries blazing, and dropped a supremely viral tweet on the country. Shashi Tharoor's use of the word 'farrago' in response to a TV anchor's allegations confounds everyone. ![]()
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