Everyone is well aware of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's love for the English language and his love for new words. 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.
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. 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. A look at some of the reactions of netizens...