Shashi Tharoor and his love for the English language knows no bounds. The man has given us so many new words in the last one year, that we can have hour-long discussions on their meanings and usage. And by now, we have accepted the fact that beating him in this context is nearly impossible.  You may not write for international publications, but he definitely does.

Exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations&outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalst

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 8, 2017

To all the well-meaning folks who send me parodies of my supposed speaking/writing style: The purpose of speaking or writing is to communicate w/ precision. I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea i want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 13, 2017

But yesterday, Tharoor took to his Twitter account to appreciate someone else's language skills and our perception changed forever. Of course it wasn't just any random person. It was a vocabulary genius' piece of work.

Brace yourself, because this might leave you even more confused than Tharoor's tweets have ever managed to do.

Received on whats app. Quite a feat! pic.twitter.com/JfAQrwwt8V

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 7, 2018

You can go ahead and read it once more just like we did. Done?Now let us tell you what this whole thing is about.

Reportedly, the sentence is from Dmitri Borgmann's book 'Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities'. And this sentence is unlike any other.  It is an example of a rhopalic sentence, where each word contains one letter, or one syllable, more than the previous word. The 20th word “incomprehensibleness” is 20 letters long which might make this sentence the longest rhopalic one. 

Mind= Blown

Shashi's tweet obviously went viral and left the folks on Twitter surprised.

1.      Leaving Tharoor Impressed Definitely Is A Feat.

Sir nay jo reply kiya Hoga. Wo insaan bhi apney TL par Upload kar ke..Quite a feat kar raha hoga..https://t.co/mQ9YmXeP4t

— Troll Lal Salam (@TrollLalsalam) January 7, 2018

2.      A Match Made In Heaven.

 Wow! You met your match finally!

— Namrata (@NamrataWakhloo) January 7, 2018

3.      Not In Your Wildest Dream.

 Wouldn't want to play Scrabble with the writer...

— Faris Hussain (@farishussain) January 7, 2018

4.      Same Bro, Same.

Hard to believe it's not you.

— Rahul (@desicovfefe) January 7, 2018

5.      Everyone Feels The Same.

I thought it was you who created this Tharoor sahab :)

— Tehseen Munawer (@TehseenMunawer) January 7, 2018

6.      'Farrago' Is Etched In Our Hearts Foreva!

Still doesn't beat 'Farrago'  ð

— Muhammad Uzair (@MirUzair1) January 7, 2018

7.      What A Coincidence!

 And isn't it so apt it has come to you...:)

— Rajeev Batra (@R_Batra_) January 7, 2018

8.      We Want To Know Too.

If you were to make it 21, What word would that be? @ShashiTharoor ðð»

— vikram sunda (@congenialvik) January 7, 2018

9.      Y U Do Dis?

Simply say the scentence is in arithmetic progression.

Why kolavari di?

— Sudhanshu (@logiccool) January 7, 2018

10.  Remarkable Indeed.

There's no dearth of geniuses worldwide! Remarkable!

— aroma bhardwaj (@BhardwajAroma) January 7, 2018

Although we are still waiting for Mr. Tharoor to enlighten us with a new word in 2018, we can make do with this for the time being.