“English is a bhery phunny language,” said Shashi Tharoor never.
He loves English and we love his English. Though most of the times we have to consult a dictionary to truly gauge what our impressive Congress MP is saying.
But, nevertheless, we enjoy reading and hearing Mr. Tharoor’s impeccable language skills.
After the exasperating farrago of his eloquent words, such as this…
Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017
The world lauded for him and we have immense amount of respect for him (not that we didn’t have it before).
Recently, Mr. Tharoor gave his two cents about the ongoing heated debate about Padmavati in Rajasthan — that how people are more concerned about a film and not about the education and welfare of the women of the state.
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
Didn’t understand the last bit? Well, hold on those horses. That’s not some new fancy terms he is throwing at all, but a mere typo.
But, before the Grammar Nazis could jump in and point that out to him or school him. The language perfectionist that he is, he himself apologised for it and clarified what happened.
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
The reactions are quite varied.
https://twitter.com/adiga1008/status/929966222845734913
That he surely is!
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
Well, well, well!
https://twitter.com/ishan_rohit/status/930097795716939776
Some, believed the words and googled them too. Eh?
I googled the words n was trying to make sense out of them
Hoong : Boy's name meaning, origin, and popularity
Thang: non-standard spelling of thing representing Southern US pronunciation, typically used to denote a feeling or tendency.
— Saket Aloni (@SaketAloni) November 13, 2017
And, the common suggestion was this,
Turn the autocorrect off. I have #switchoffautocorrect
— Sumit (@sumitgarg07) November 13, 2017
Whatever be it. We quite like Mr. Tharoor’s earnest nature, when it comes to the English language.