Although primarily a politician with the Indian National Congress and a former diplomat, Shashi Tharoor is known for his impeccably correct and eloquent English that can put to shame even the royal British. Well, quite so. Who can forget his “farrago of distortions, misinterpretations and outright lies” that was hurled at the Republic TV’s chief Arnab Goswami! The word “farrago” literally sent every Indian back to being buried under heavy dictionaries to find its meaning. And till this date, there has not been anyone to challenge his authority over the Queen’s language.
Shashi Tharoor. The Indian Express
Most glimpses of Tharoor’s mastery over English is seen on Twitter, when he chooses to comment and present his opinion over a variety of events. In fact, his tweets are regarded as easy and free vocabulary classes by a major chunk of the population. You may love him or hate him but his debates and speeches are things which every Indian looks forward to. And that is quite undeniable.
Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017
So, when this supreme authority over English language made a tiny mistake (or typo) on Twitter, some people thought that was indeed a series of new words that needs to be looked up on the dictionary while some other people trolled him well for committing such a typo despite being a master of words.
The buzz started when Tharoor committed a typo on Twitter while presenting his views on the ‘Padmavati’ controversy:
Agree totally. The #Padmavati controversy is an opportunity to focus on the conditions of Rajasthani women today ¬ just of queens six centuries ago. Rajasthan’s female literacy among lowest. Education more important thang Hoog hats https://t.co/82rvGmkfwO
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017
Although Tharoor was swift in pointing out his own mistake and the apologizing for the same, Twitter was not ready to spare him still.
Just realised that dreaded autocorrect has changed “than goonghats” to “ thang hoong hats”. Apologies. When I hit “tweet” I was still seeing the correct words I’d typed https://t.co/aQzEGfBuJq
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017
And this is how Twitter responded:
Is this a new word?
We thought you invented new english word like ferrago and we used used “thang hoong hats” in many of our sentences to sound as impressive as you 😄😄
— Ashtavakra अष्टवक्र (@adiga1008) November 13, 2017
And there we were, thinking you were teaching us some new English words 😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😉😉
— sanjana singh (@princesssiggy) November 13, 2017
We kind of agree, why does THE Tharoor needs the autocorrect on?
Auto correct is for those who dont no spellings…u r master u can make ur own shashi-tionary ..switch off auto correct
— Rohit Sharma (@rohitsharma000) November 13, 2017
Sassy Tharoor? Well!
Sir you are sassy tharoor😎
— ROHIT ISHAN (@ishan_rohit) November 13, 2017
I thought its your covfefe moment?
— Rajinder Raina (@rraina1481) November 13, 2017
This guy had some point though:
It happens…remember once d sme thing happen. Instead of typing mehr tarar u typed Meri Tarar….it happens relax…
— bebo (@Beboo910) November 13, 2017
And this person as well:
Why is it that you feel emboldened to disparage ghoonghats but wont say a word about its more barbaric form – burqas? Dont those women need to be educated? Maybe they are just like farm animals for a purpose; used for vote banks only?
— Danny Nocher (@PhirBhiDilHH) November 13, 2017
The attack continued –
It’s strange that you talk of women when the life of the woman in your life was taken away and you seem to be least concerned about it. First Persue that.
— Ram Prakriya (@RamPrakriya) November 13, 2017
Well, it seems a little typo is all that Tharoor needed to land himself in soup though few of the tweets were hands down entertaining. Don’t you think so? Let us know your views regarding the typo committed by Tharoor in the comments section below!
