Tharoor Just Gave Us Our Word Of The Day And Omar Abdullah Had An Advice We Can’t Ignore!

There was one Shashi from English Vinglish who didn’t know the language and made an entire movie worth of efforts to learn to speak it well. And then there is this Shashi. The man, the dictionary, the legend—Mr. Shashi Tharoor—who knows the language so well that you’d think he freaking invented it!

Basically, Sashi Tharoor is that English professor who insists you carry a dictionary to his class, because he won’t bring down his level of proficiency just to make your lives easier! An exasperating farrago of distortions, if you will!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your dictionaries and thesaurus, for Prof. Sashi Tharoor is back with another language lesson, this time too via Twitter!

So apparently, it looks like people have been mocking Tharoor’s writing style and he wanted to clarify why he uses the words he does—because precision. However, to communicate this point ‘with precision’, Tharoor ended up composing this gem of a tweet!

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

Attention class, your new word of the day is ‘rodomontade’ courtesy Prof. Tharoor. Raise your hands if you know the meaning. If not, raise your English language proficiency by reading the damn dictionary!

Christmas came early for the Twitterati, who pounced on this chance to yet again mock Tharoor for his usage of a word not so commonly used by us, the common folk.

1. We thought we’d start with giving you the meaning of the word rodomontade. FYI, it means boastful or inflated talk/behaviour. You’re welcome!

For the uninitiated (like me) who may not have the time to look it up, here's what the word rodomontade means: pic.twitter.com/It5z3WgQnR

— JayEnAar (@GorwayGlobal) December 13, 2017

2. Teacher, teacher, aaj hum kya naya seekhenge?

Tharoor: Rodomontade!

Thanks 🙏
It's my word of the day!

— Vikas Lohia (@vikaslohia) December 14, 2017

3. Gosh, stop with the rodomontad-ing, will ya?

I can rodomontadely say that day by day I read your rodomontaded tweets in English, I will be rodomontaded of my improved English. A rodomontade Jai Hind sir.

— Kanatunga कानातूंगा💧 (@Kanatunga) December 13, 2017

4. Samjhe?

"Communicate" with precision.. The problem is, those words may be precise (though rodomontade) but hardly communicate, as an average person wouldn't bother googling their meaning

— sherry (@CherieDamour_) December 13, 2017

5. Farrago 2.0!

Haha …. 👌 A clarification that needs a clarification!! … We've got our new 'farrago' now ..

— Arun (@Armenon83) December 13, 2017

6. Hi, I would like to take classes from Shashi Tharoor’s English teacher, please?

Heard one new word again-"rodomontade"😂. I want my school fees back. 😂😂

— Balendu Pandey (@balendu29) December 14, 2017

7. Admission form milega Stephens ka?

Get the dictionary men! Stephens ka launda @ShashiTharoor is tweeting again! 🧐 #rodomontade https://t.co/6mmiecehuk

— Dharmaa Sankar 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌹 (@dharmaasankar) December 14, 2017

8. FYI, mot juste is French for ‘appropriate word’. Also, Raja Sen is a writer.

Et tu, Raja Sen?

For what is life if not a perennial quest for the mot juste?

— Raja Sen (@RajaSen) December 14, 2017

9. Saala ek tweet aadmi ko rodomontade bana deta hai!

https://twitter.com/nanapatakarr/status/941158370618118145

10. Twitter, this is your fault!

Twitter:140 Characters
Tharoor: #farrago

Twitter: 280 Characters
Tharoor: #Rodomontade

Twitter : let Block him @ShashiTharoor 😂😂

— Syed Naveed Khadri (@syednaveedd2) December 14, 2017

11. Mah tweet. Mah rulzzzz. Mah rodomontade!

I do not always tweet, but when I do I #rodomontade

— anurup (@anurup) December 14, 2017

12. The universe works in mysterious ways!

Universe is created in such a way that there Yin for every Yang.

If there is #Covfefe there 's #rodomontade

— Rhyme & Reason (@Krishntripathi) December 14, 2017

13. Not so GREat!

That moment when I understood the entire passage in my GRE exam and the final word ruined my entire comprehension. https://t.co/7k9TOzlJqW

— Raghav S (@raghavs93) December 14, 2017

14. Sahi pakde hain!

https://twitter.com/WWOne_FlyingAce/status/941176863719809024

The highlight of this entire situation was when former Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah endorsed Shashi Tharoor as a teacher of all things English!

Learning English? Follow my friend @ShashiTharoor for words you never knew existed & will struggle to ever use in a sentence but by golly they sound impressive. #rodomontade 😀

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) December 14, 2017

By golly, you’e right Mr. Abdullah!

So anyway, our heatfelt gratitude to Shashi Tharoor for all these moments of learning that he bestows upon us, the layman. As a wise Amitabh Bachchan in Namak Halal said, “Engliss is a very phunny language.”

And you, Mr. Tharoor, make it even more entertaining!

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