While people were still recovering from Shashi Tharoor’s ‘exasperating farrago of distortions’, his new tweet sent them into another vocabulary hysteria. Known for his impeccable English and vocabulary, Shashi Tharoor recently tweeted something about Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film Padmavati’s controversial release and the need for Rajasthani women to be enraged about issues concerning their condition.
Agree totally. The #Padmavati controversy is an opportunity to focus on the conditions of Rajasthani women today ¬ just of queens six centuries ago. Rajasthan’s female literacy among lowest. Education more important thang Hoog hats https://t.co/82rvGmkfwO
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017
He wrote ‘Education more important thang Hoog hats’ and Twitter was left scratching their heads, oblivious to the fact that he had actually made a typo. But in those eight minutes when he realised and corrected his mistake, the Twitter started looking up what does ‘thang’ and ‘hoog’.
What is Thang Hoog Hats?
— Chinmay Mishra (@Chinmay_Mishra_) November 13, 2017
Started looking up for thang* ,just because you’d tweet ! Haha.
— Anushree Arun (@anushreearun13) November 13, 2017
Hahaha! You do realize everyone’s gonna start looking for the word “thang hoong hats” 🙂
— riddhi singh (@riddhineeta) November 13, 2017
Thang Hoog Hats? Sounds Vietnamese. 😛 Love the laughs your autocorrect gives us sometimes.
— J. rex (@pajamacounselor) November 13, 2017
Just like it happens with many of us, Shashi Tharoor’s auto-correct was the culprit so he apologised and corrected it, but social media almost invested 8 minutes looking up for the ‘new’ words. Not fair.
Just realised that dreaded autocorrect has changed “than goonghats” to “ thang hoong hats”. Apologies. When I hit “tweet” I was still seeing the correct words I’d typed https://t.co/aQzEGfBuJq
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 13, 2017
I googled the words n was trying to make sense out of them
Hoong : Boy’s name meaning, origin, and popularity
Thang: non-standard spelling of thing representing Southern US pronunciation, typically used to denote a feeling or tendency.
— Saket Aloni (@SaketAloni) November 13, 2017
Auto correct is for those who dont no spellings…u r master u can make ur own shashi-tionary ..switch off auto correct
— Rohit Sharma (@rohitsharma000) November 13, 2017
Given your vocabulary mess, autocorrect looks more bearable
— Bibhas Singh (@bibhasksingh) November 13, 2017
Thanks for this tweet. You perhaps saved many productive-man-hours! Else people would still be looking for the meaning of “thang hoong hats” in all forms of dictionaries and multiples checks through different browsers and search engines!
— Prabhat MOHANTY (@authorMohanty) November 13, 2017
Auto-correct got a chance to embarrass the English genius for once ! *wink*
