It is well known that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's mastery of the Queen's language is unparalleled, at least in the political circles. In his latest tweet, he dropped three difficult words: ‘hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia’, ‘garrulous’, and ‘sesquipedalian - all in the same sentence. The Thiruvananthapuram MP was reacting to Saloni Gaur, who had posted a video on Twitter in which she imitated his accent and drew similarities with a character from Sushmita Sen's new web series, Aarya. This is quite brilliant. @ShashiTharoor have you seen this? — Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) June 13, 2020 Filmmaker Hansal Mehta also came across the video and retweeted it, tagging the former diplomat. "This is quite brilliant. Shashi Tharoor, have you seen this?" he wrote on Twitter. 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 Tharoor soon reacted to the video saying, “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!”. His tweet created quite a stir on the internet. While many made jokes and memes about his vocabulary, others were busy finding the meaning of the words. Take a look at some of the reactions here: pic.twitter.com/IzTkZpQ8Nd — Stree (@goal_digger__) June 13, 2020 pic.twitter.com/I3CpAI7nol — प्रोफसर Raja babu 🥳🌈 (@GaurangBhardwa1) June 13, 2020 Every one who read above tweet pic.twitter.com/bDSLG6SfKs — भाई साहब (@Bhai_saheb) June 13, 2020 pic.twitter.com/E6B4jnDrGQ — Jashan Joshi (@jashanjoshi) June 13, 2020 pic.twitter.com/kmX3JbzWH8 — Gulrose Shaikh (@GulRose_views) June 13, 2020 Me trying to find the meaning of those two word pic.twitter.com/jAYZZopxHQ — Folitically (@folitically) June 13, 2020 saving some more time for some of you 😁 pic.twitter.com/HuycSJk6jw — CID Samoosa (@cid_samoosa) June 13, 2020 Saving everybody's time. pic.twitter.com/NfOW3P7Lya — The Indian Smog (@theindiansmog) June 13, 2020 samze na samze hamko sune k accha laga pic.twitter.com/dweTP2vsu0 — Rohit Dere (@Rohit__Dere) June 13, 2020 English to english translation😂 — Riya_s (@Riyadenny) June 14, 2020 pic.twitter.com/H4P2cEZdjN — Faad Dunga BC (@naalaYUCK) June 13, 2020 pic.twitter.com/bjiwFP3lWz — Marwadi (@gaitonde07) June 14, 2020 For the uninitiated, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, ironically, means the fear of long words, and sesquipedalian is an adjective used to describe long words.
