Months after Shashi Tharoor made headlines for his mind-boggling linguistic skills by introducing the Indian social media to words like ‘exasperating farrago’, the Congress MP is in the news again as he seems to have coined a term describing people whose main source of information is almost anything on the internet.
Showing a penchant for some wordplay this time in Hinglish, Tharoor tweeted a term ‘Webaqoof’ with a definition that described someone who accepts every word or piece of information on the social media as the gospel truth.
New Hinglish 21st century dictionary:
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 25, 2017
*Webaqoof*: "one who believes every claim or allegation on the internet & social media must be true"
Although the word isn’t a Tharoor original and is available on a website called urbandictionary.com, the tweet created a buzz on social media as people couldn’t stop talking about Tharoor’s wit and how he always comes back against trolls.
Mr Shashi Tharoor ji is the new name of wit on the twitter
— Anshuman Sail (@AnshumanSail) July 25, 2017
A tight slap on trolls 😂😂
— Jayasree Vijayan (@JayasreeVijayan) July 25, 2017
Few also came up with their own witty reactions to Tharoor’s take on internet users who often jump the gun.
Good one ! But Are we suppose to believe in this ?? pic.twitter.com/QHV0k4k2nP
— JV (@vyasjigs) July 25, 2017
Can we have similar coinage for those who attend WhatsApp schools with total dedication?
— poet in a mirror (@sabathenomad) July 25, 2017
