Shashi Tharoor – Is Your Vocabulary Up to Mark?
An evening pause: This is entertaining, in that it demonstrates the ability of English to absorb an endless number of words, even words that are absolutely ridiculous. Most of these words are unknown because they are hard to say and their meaning can be stated more efficiently and simply using normal vocabulary. I must also add that Tharoor is a Indian politician from the socialist Congress Party, now the minority party in India with the rise the present conservative government under President Modi.
I am therefore not surprised that he is skilled with using big words that can help him obfuscate his meaning, while making him seem erudite.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
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The antarctic snow cruiser video is clearly not the vid you meant to put in this entry.
Interesting non the less.
fred: Clear your cache. The right video will appear.
Pardon me Mr. Z, But is it not spelled ‘clearyourcacheiology’ ?
Fun video, thanks.
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Alex Andrite: Huh?
Alex: Oh, I get it now. Sorry, brain is slow today. :)
This is why spelling bees are so bogus, they concentrate on obscure words no one uses in normal conversation