Someone tries to 'farrago' Tharoor with English skills, Twitter feels he’s found his match

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's extensive vocabulary has many a times left his Twitter followers nonplused. From introducing 'farrago' to his followers to his recent lesson on 'rodomontade', he has kept twitterati busy in guessing what more the Thiruvananthapuram MP has in store for them.

Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017

To all the well-meaning folks who send me parodies of my supposed speaking/writing style: The purpose of speaking or writing is to communicate w/ precision. I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea i want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones! — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 13, 2017

But on Sunday, Tharoor took to his Twitter account to appreciate someone else's language skills. He shared a message he received on WhatsApp: “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunication’s incomprehensibleness.”

Received on whats app. Quite a feat! pic.twitter.com/JfAQrwwt8V

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 7, 2018

Is was a 'rhopalic sentence' where each word is one letter or one syllable longer than the previous. For Tharoor, the sentence was "quite a feat". The sentence appeared to be from Dmitri Borgmann's book 'Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities'. However, more interesting was the way people reacted to Tharoor's tweet.

Sir somebody is giving you tough competion ???? — अनिका ਗਿਨੀ (@goldiciousgurl) January 7, 2018

Wow! You met your match finally! — Namrata (@NamrataWakhloo) January 7, 2018

Whoever has written this must be your fan ???? or inspired by you. — Faisal Imam (@_thelunchbox_) January 7, 2018

Still doesn't beat 'Farrago' ???? — Muhammad Uzair (@MirUzair1) January 7, 2018

Hard to believe it’s not you. — Rahul (@desicovfefe) January 7, 2018

It is still nothing against farrago..???? — Nishant Bhardwaj???????? (@Ntiwary7) January 7, 2018

Sir apko tho watsapp pe bhi aise msg ate hai....hume tho sir jokes aur good morning ke msg ata hai???????????? — PAL AJAY (@palajay36) January 8, 2018

Looks like you have a competitor out there, Dr Tharoor — Abhina Pradeep (@abhi197) January 7, 2018

OMG ye to rodomondgjedeheh farrago ho gya — तमराज किलविष Kilvish (@avthedemon) January 8, 2018