Shashi Tharoor’s Latest ‘Word Of The Day’ Takes A Snide Dig At Internet Trolls

I doubt India has till date had another politician with a vocabulary as diverse as Shashi Tharoor’s. Over the last year or so alone we have seen people in power, the seemingly educated knowledgeable leaders, make extremely unscientific statements that make logic want to go jump off a cliff. Remember the High Court judge’s ‘Peahen drinks tears of the peacock to get pregnant’ statement? Yeah, I still shudder at the memory.

By comparison, Shashi Tharoor and his ‘Tharoorian English’ are godsent. He introduced words like farrago, troglodyte and moledro into the ordinary Indian citizens’ dictionary.

Yesterday, he added one more to our evergrowing list and this one’s a double-edged sword.

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Addressed the staff of Tesco India in Bangalore last week.

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In an epic two birds with one stone move, Tharoor shared the new word ‘lalochezia’, on Twitter while taking a side dig at Twitter trolls in the process.

Every day, I encounter on @Twitter people suffering from lalochezia! All too often they direct their suffering at me & others who support my beliefs…. pic.twitter.com/7h0htfD7Qk

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 9, 2018

Damn! Speak about getting burned!

Obviously, the Tweeple had a lot to say about his savage move.

1. I need to get on this diet.

Do you take "Dictionary" with your breakfast? With one word a day, you enrich our limited "shabdkhos" !!

— Abhi (@abhinavsahay) April 10, 2018

2. Can we please make this happen ASAP?

https://twitter.com/hfactor/status/983571609108733952

3. Me too!

From today onwards I will start using this word to my abusive friends.

— गोरखपुरिया (@hinduyuva12) April 10, 2018

4. This new ‘definition with the word’ style is truly helpful for us mere mortals.

Thank you Sir. By posting the dictionary pic of word "lalochezia", you saved your followers from trouble of searching the internet 😂. Finally you understood that you are in India. Just to write this word again, I had to see your tweet 5 times 🤣. India loves your tweets, sir.

— Mukesh Sharma (@msharmaind) April 10, 2018

5. Let’s make it trend people!

Maybe should do one like this everyday, call it #TharoorThoughts :p

— Ananay Agarwal (@agarwal_ananay) April 10, 2018

6. Like a bawse.

Haahhaah silent troll

— nikhil marokey (@nikhilmarokey) April 10, 2018

7. Contra-what?

In that case, we must humbly proffer our contrafibularities to these lalochzians for their everyday feat.https://t.co/r3fzk0VXk7

— 100rabh 🛡 (@100rabh100nu) April 10, 2018

8. The irony!

It’s quite interesting how this tweet ‘s response is reinforcing and reiterating the validity of your claim!

— Ravikumar Chockalingam MD MPH (@Chockalingam_Ra) April 10, 2018

9. True.

Troll army ke maalik ne padh liya to tension mai heart fail ho jayega 😜

— سچ کی جیت सत्यमेव जयते (@TruthPrevail3) April 9, 2018

10. No one like Tharoor.

https://twitter.com/ARamanujan/status/983447703777632258

11. Who knew Twitter could help with GRE prep?

Sir you are helping me a lot in my gre preparation! 🙏😅

— Anuraag Dutta (@AnuraagDutta) April 9, 2018

12. Oh, how the times have changed.

Dad in 90s: Dictionary se ek word roz yaad kara karo for vocabulary.

Dad in 2018: Shashi Tharoor ko Twitter pe follow karo for vocabulary.

— Harihar Goswami (@harihar_goswami) April 10, 2018

I, for one, loved this not so subtle move by Shashi Tharoor. Can we please get him to make this is a weekly thing?

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