New Delhi: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor’s command over the English language is certainly exemplary and infrequently leaves his viewers puzzled. The Thiruvananthapuram MP on Friday posted one other head scratcher “floccinaucinihilipilification”, that means the motion or behavior of estimating one thing as nugatory, on Twitter as he engaged in dialog with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) working president Ok T Rama Rao over the names of Covid-19 drugs.
The pleasant banter on the micro-blogging platform started with the TRS working president questioning why drugs names are so robust to pronounce.
“On a lighter note, any idea who comes up with this unpronounceable names for meds? – Posaconazole – Cresemba – Tocilzumab – Remdesivir – Liposomal Amphoterecin – Flavipiravir – Molnupiravir – Baricitinib. And the list goes on…,” KTR posted final night time.
Tagging Tharoor, he wrote in one other submit: “I suspect @ShashiTharoor Ji Pakka has a role to play in this.”
Tharoor responded to KTR wittily and got here up with one more not so usually used phrase “procrustean”, which suggests (of a system, a algorithm, and so on.) treating all individuals or issues as if they’re the identical with out contemplating particular person variations and in a manner that’s too strict and unreasonable.
“Not guilty! How can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification, @KTRTRS?” “Left to me I”d fortunately name them “CoroNil”, “CoroZero”, & even “GoCoroNaGo!” But these pharmacists are extra procrustean…..,” he tweeted.
