KTR Tweet: Shashi Tharoor Pleads Not Guilty May 21, 2021, 16:14 IST
HYDERABAD: Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao and Congress MP from Kerala, Shashi Tharoor s friendly tete-a-tete on Twitter had the Netizens talking over their friendly banter over the naming of COVID medicines and Tharoor s infamous usage of complicated words.
KTR who has been extremely busy handling COVID measures in the state physically and virtually over Twitter, while helping people in distress took some time off from stressful day on Thursday night and the IT Minister tweeted about the names of COVID medications which are complicated to pronounce. Not surpising when he comes across these names on Twitter as people request for help.
Most social media platforms are swarming with names of drugs used to treat COVID-19 infection as India continues to battle the second wave of the pandemic.
I suspect @ShashiTharoor Ji Pakka has a role to play in this https://t.co/zO024Pq0Oa
Not to shy away from a fun banter the Congress leader responded that saying‘not guilty and proceeded to teach Twitter some more new words.
Not guilty! How can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification, @KTRTRS? Left to me I d happily call them CoroNil , CoroZero , & even GoCoroNaGo! But these pharmacists are more procrustean.. https://t.co/YrIFSoVquo
The Thiruvananthapuram MP s response was recieved with much gusto as netizens could not help but crack up.
For those who are wondering, the Oxford dictionary defines floccinaucinihilipilification as “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless” while ‘procrustean , means “enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation or individuality.”
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher – floccinaucinihilipilification.
The noun, which had Twitterati once again running for their dictionaries, came up as Tharoor engaged in friendly banter with TRS working president K T Rama Rao over Covid-19 medicine names.
Oxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless”.
It started with Rama Rao, or KTR as he is popularly called, wondering why medicine names are so tough to pronounce.
Not guilty! How can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification, @KTRTRS? Left to me I d happily call them C… https://t.co/DMy3sLTDmr Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1621578084000
Oxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthless .
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NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher, floccinaucinihilipilification.
The noun, which had Twitterati once again running for their dictionaries, came up as Tharoor engaged in friendly banter with TRS working president K T Rama Rao over COVID-19 medicine names.
Oxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthless .
It started with Rama Rao, or KTR as he is popularly called, wondering why medicine names are so tough to pronounce.