INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: An exchange between a sesquipedalian Shashi Tharoor and the Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia stuck K.T
Rama Rao brought a rare chuckle of delight for the twitterati on an otherwise gloomy day that continued to be about Covid, hospital
emergencies, shortages and rush to save people
with Congress party MP Shashi Tharoor, known for his proclivity for picking and using rarely used, obscure and little-known words in
Rama Rao, who uses the Twitter handle @KTRTRS tweeted about how hard it was to pronounce names of drugs and went on to call out a few:
Posaconazole, Cresemba, Tocilzumab, Remdesivir, Liposomal Amphoterecin, Flavipiravir, Molnupiravir, and Baricitinib
known to back down from a challenge involving vocabulary, twitter or both, responded the way he does best, throwing into his reply a long
vocabulary.This lighthearted ribbing between two of the more popular Indian politicians on Twitter over nomenclature of drugs racked up
thousands of likes and hundreds of retweets and comments, with people joining in the fun, using their own choice of words, and some
helpfully providing the meanings and pronunciation of the words Tharoor employed.For the record, the Collins dictionary says
Mirriam Webster dictionary as something takes no account of individual differences but cruelly and mercilessly makes everything the
noteworthy in an era when huge teams handle the twitter handles for political leaders, both KTR and Tharoor handle their personal twitter
May the two plenipotent leaders grow more.
