Except for valetudinarian, neologism, and serendipity, I flunked every question. Contrary to popular belief, it is usually words like half-pace that give problems, while longer words are easy to remember. Shashi is spot on when he says reading was the only option those days, in the absence of internet and social media. I picked up several words including rodomontade and farrago from "Reader's Digest" which was in circulation those days and also from noted columnists and humorists like Art Buchwald, Jug Suraiya etc. An interesting episode overall.
@@tyajn1 It doesn't necessarily have to be books, it could be newspapers, magazines etc. in any format you prefer. Reader's Digest magazine used to have a word quiz section from where I learned several words. Roget's Thesaurus would be of great help too. Of course, reading is the best and the most natural way to improve vocabulary, according to many experts.
What a wonderful video. And truly a treat to listen to two people passionate about a language talk about interesting words and where they came from. Quizzing Dr. Tharoor on social media lingo was a fun idea, but this is so much better! Learnt so much as well. Fantastic content!
I wonder what his opinion is on people who incorrectly call the letters ABCD alphabets. Those are letters! The word "alphabet" refers to the whole thing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. That's like calling rooms within a house "houses". I only discovered this year that some people say "alphabets", they mean "letters of the alphabet". If I knew earlier or if people stopped making this mistake, that would have spared me so much confusion when learning Hindi.
@@niteshm6 An alphabet is "set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language". So in English, there is 1 alphabet with 26 letters in it. Not 26 "alphabets". Japanese has 2 alphabets*, and a set of pictograms called Kanji. D is the fourth letter of the alphabet, not the fourth alphabet. Edit: *Technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound
@@niteshm6 Yes for 1 language. Actually, technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound. This is why people have a hard time learning Japanese. Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) also uses two different writing systems, but people generally use 1 or the other, unlike Japanese, which simultaneously uses Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. From Wikipedia: "The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis. Almost all written Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is considered to be one of the most complicated currently in use."
I absolutely love when Sumanto comes up with Dr. Shashi Tharoor. It's always a pleasure watching them both chat, laugh, grin, joke in a conversation. Thanks Sumanto, i wish you come up with more such videos with Dr. Tharoor. Love watching your videos!
As always a wonderful episode, introducing us to some more very interstingly few more new words. Huge appreciation to both the English Nuts and Dr.Shashi Tharoor.
The simplest solution to help all Indians improve their English to make them fluent : *Make them study under the ICSE BOARD since their childhood, NOT CBSE/STATE BOARD*
Earliest known use of the phrase "Love is blind" is by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales in the late 14th century. Just watched this trivia featured in a Netflix series "The Chair".
I can understand you must be disappointed with the less view but trust me what you put out is pure “Gold” so keep uploading. Wish you a humongous success ❤
I wonder how to describe one of my friend with a single word due to her approach of course.. Finally I've found it today. Thanks a ton to Sumanta Da & Tharoor Sir for introducing us with 'Valetudinarian'...😁😁
Please discuss with Tharoor ji on the following two phrases: 1. In terms of - I think it’s misused often where about, regarding, as regards etc would do. 2. As to - here too I feel this is is used where it’s not required.
Wonderful and enjoyable video. I am no expert of English; studied the language up to 12th grade only. But I happen to know (or so I think) one word used by Mr. Tharoor - cattle-class. I suppose it means the economy class of the airplane travel. That was the sense when I heard it being used by a British friend.
One recommendation for you, The English Nut to change the thumbnail a bit so that it looks new or maybe add a 🆕 batch on corner. I misunderstood it for the old episode 2 and ignored it for 11 days despite it being shown many times in my TH-cam recommendations feed.
Why this tease? Can't you upload the full episode? I have waited for this part and Ruskin Bond's for more than six months I suppose. But really fascinating to see the English Nut taking on the Big Dady of English Nut. One feedback if you want to take it. Well I've said it before as well that please disable mandatory subtitles and make them optional. The subtitles distract.
If I wanna choose Tharoor or an Oxford dictionary, I'll choose the former.😀 I read his books and have learnt many new English words. One day, I'll meet you, Sir and cwtch you for sure. 😊
Now, I have a different thing to say here, or rather, ask...The English Nut t shirt. Is it available in the market for us, too? I would love to have one
Such Rich British English accent! Wonderful...but what's hypocritical is you go off to London and rant against them! While you still speak a good old Londoner English accent! That's particularly strange!
![A conversation about English with SHASHI THAROOR. [2020]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AyEDo4Jf0KM/mqdefault.jpg)
Mr.Shashi Tharoor has changed the way of thinking and speaking of a whole generation to be honest. 😊
Still he's passionate about learning new words. Exchange was as sweet as Bengali sweets.
"why can't you just say day before yesterday" HAHAHA look whose asking😂
😂😂
Both are my favourite men . It is a feast to watch when you both join together like this . Love you both .
Except for valetudinarian, neologism, and serendipity, I flunked every question. Contrary to popular belief, it is usually words like half-pace that give problems, while longer words are easy to remember. Shashi is spot on when he says reading was the only option those days, in the absence of internet and social media. I picked up several words including rodomontade and farrago from "Reader's Digest" which was in circulation those days and also from noted columnists and humorists like Art Buchwald, Jug Suraiya etc. An interesting episode overall.
Hi can you please tell if the quickest process to enhance vocabulary is reading books only??
@@tyajn1 It doesn't necessarily have to be books, it could be newspapers, magazines etc. in any format you prefer. Reader's Digest magazine used to have a word quiz section from where I learned several words. Roget's Thesaurus would be of great help too. Of course, reading is the best and the most natural way to improve vocabulary, according to many experts.
What a wonderful video. And truly a treat to listen to two people passionate about a language talk about interesting words and where they came from. Quizzing Dr. Tharoor on social media lingo was a fun idea, but this is so much better! Learnt so much as well. Fantastic content!
Well i believe the fact that the person knows how to respect Tharoor sir.. my ultimate idol of respect and worship... 😊
Thank you for creating such content! It tickles my brain 🧠
Is that a Shakespearean expression? 😊
@@kreativepulp8760 haha! I wish I knew 🙈
@@Jay-pl3wk Sounds like a question for Dr. Tharoor's next session. 😁
Find out how much Shashi Tharoor scores on the English Nut quiz. You can't miss this one! :)
Read theory app is great to read according to ur level our sir told
Sorry website
Please bring Shuhel Seth
I waited for this since a long time thanx English nut❤😊😊
@@piyushjadhav2278 Had not heard of it. Looked it up now.
I wonder what his opinion is on people who incorrectly call the letters ABCD alphabets. Those are letters! The word "alphabet" refers to the whole thing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. That's like calling rooms within a house "houses". I only discovered this year that some people say "alphabets", they mean "letters of the alphabet". If I knew earlier or if people stopped making this mistake, that would have spared me so much confusion when learning Hindi.
How many Alphabets are in English language?
@@niteshm6 An alphabet is "set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language". So in English, there is 1 alphabet with 26 letters in it. Not 26 "alphabets". Japanese has 2 alphabets*, and a set of pictograms called Kanji. D is the fourth letter of the alphabet, not the fourth alphabet. Edit: *Technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound
@@abhinav_photo.and.linguistics Japanese have 2 Alphabets? For a single language or two different languages?
@@niteshm6 Yes for 1 language. Actually, technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound. This is why people have a hard time learning Japanese. Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) also uses two different writing systems, but people generally use 1 or the other, unlike Japanese, which simultaneously uses Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
From Wikipedia: "The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis. Almost all written Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is considered to be one of the most complicated currently in use."
@@abhinav_photo.and.linguistics Good information. I thought all languages have only one alphabet.
I absolutely love when Sumanto comes up with Dr. Shashi Tharoor. It's always a pleasure watching them both chat, laugh, grin, joke in a conversation. Thanks Sumanto, i wish you come up with more such videos with Dr. Tharoor. Love watching your videos!
As always a wonderful episode, introducing us to some more very interstingly few more new words.
Huge appreciation to both the English Nuts and Dr.Shashi Tharoor.
I couldn't resist smiling and chuckling all through! 😂❤.. It's always a super warm feeling to watch you cool folks! ❤😻
Not a dull moment in those 12 mins … thank you 🙏🏻 for this lovely episode
Just a slight awkwardness
Wow! Mr Tharoor came again on your show!!! We want more of these Mr Nut!!
The segment from 4:24 to 4:31 was so expressive and unusual. You both seemed like kids🤭
I watch TH-cam for this kind of content. Thank you English Nut.
The conversation between these two great English nuts is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Caution: these stunts are performed by professions don't try this in your exams 😂😂
Probability :
To take cautions : if you will try this in exam, may be cautiously beaten by Tharoor itself if found wrong.
Ha or nhi to kya jo check karega agar use samaj hi nhi aaya to wo to number kaat dega phir hum to dekhte reh jayenge😂😂
Ha ha exactly
@@sharmapushpa1880 where are you from can I know
@@Asavsmrk kyu par 😂
When i heard the word serendipity, it reminded me of the song 'serendipity' by BTS 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
An absolute treat for the lexophiles!! Keep going.
Such an elegant communicator.
The simplest solution to help all Indians improve their English to make them fluent : *Make them study under the ICSE BOARD since their childhood, NOT CBSE/STATE BOARD*
Omg 🙆🏽 that was such an interestingly entertaining episode. Keep rocking 👍🏾 ✔️ 💯 ✌🏾
Earliest known use of the phrase "Love is blind" is by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales in the late 14th century. Just watched this trivia featured in a Netflix series "The Chair".
I can understand you must be disappointed with the less view but trust me what you put out is pure “Gold” so keep uploading.
Wish you a humongous success ❤
Extremely enriching experience.❤
Brilliant!!! I enjoyed this video so much.. Thank you for this content...
This was so good! Loved it.❤️
Very enriching! Loved it.
I wonder how to describe one of my friend with a single word due to her approach of course.. Finally I've found it today.
Thanks a ton to Sumanta Da & Tharoor Sir for introducing us with 'Valetudinarian'...😁😁
O wonderful, I loved it. Learnt some words.
WORDS BECOME EXPENSIVE WHEN MR. SHAHSHI THAROOR USE IT ❤❤
Wow, another fragment of the interview!❤
I love serendipity,learned it from churchils book long time back.
Well done gentlemen, I loved the exchange! :-)
Please discuss with Tharoor ji on the following two phrases: 1. In terms of - I think it’s misused often where about, regarding, as regards etc would do. 2. As to - here too I feel this is is used where it’s not required.
Lovely conversation. Enjoyed the video very much. Way to go..
Shashi sir has the audacity to say why can't you just say day before yesterday instead of using some fancy word ! Hehehe I broke out laughing !!!
two english nuts conversing is such a pleasure to the listeners' ears❤️
1:30 Tharoor is a village in Palakkad, Kerala.
Wonderful and enjoyable video. I am no expert of English; studied the language up to 12th grade only. But I happen to know (or so I think) one word used by Mr. Tharoor - cattle-class. I suppose it means the economy class of the airplane travel. That was the sense when I heard it being used by a British friend.
Laudable initiative
Absolutely delightful
I want to able to express my self in English as these guys do.
Tharoor is like the water Bruce Lee mentioned... he fits in everywhere.
Thanks to do the best of my dear
Genius Guy
Love to see the Shashi sir with you
You should do an episode on the impact of the English Bible on English literature
Beautiful video!
I declare my self as a tharoorian from now
Interesting ...good show..
🥰
LOVELY SESSION !!
Enjoyed it!
One recommendation for you, The English Nut to change the thumbnail a bit so that it looks new or maybe add a 🆕 batch on corner.
I misunderstood it for the old episode 2 and ignored it for 11 days despite it being shown many times in my TH-cam recommendations feed.
I should have done that.
Felt deeply nourished 🙏🏼
Thank you so much. Love your work ❤
Very interesting. Learnt a few new words
These two nuts never disappoint.... Wait, that came out wrong!!!
🤣🤣🤣
1:18 "its just a made up word" well which word isnt xD
Enjoyed it thoroughly
Super duper!!
Why this tease? Can't you upload the full episode? I have waited for this part and Ruskin Bond's for more than six months I suppose. But really fascinating to see the English Nut taking on the Big Dady of English Nut. One feedback if you want to take it. Well I've said it before as well that please disable mandatory subtitles and make them optional. The subtitles distract.
Very interesting session 👍
I thought hippophobia is the fear of hippopotamus 😂
@@pragyashree9387 😀
He is truly genius
Hahahaha..shashi ji...🎉🎉🎉🥰
The eminent mp of Indian parliament ❤❤❤
Please continue the episodes
If I wanna choose Tharoor or an Oxford dictionary, I'll choose the former.😀 I read his books and have learnt many new English words. One day, I'll meet you, Sir and cwtch you for sure. 😊
It's such an interesting ...
Immensely gratified
I want more of these please 😭😭
Loved it♥️❤️💜
Indian version of Oxford dictionary.... ❤❤❤🎉
What does he mean when he says she surprise everyone by popping it 3.29
'Popping it' is an informal way of saying 'dying'.
@@TheEnglishNut oh always learning something new and you replied thanks !
were all the dr. tharoor episodes filmed in 2020? or is the setup/his clothing the same all the time
Regarding “Brontophobia”, I’ve another word , “Ceraunophobia”; which is what I knew as fear of thunder. Was I wrong?
You're right. The two words have similar meanings.
I want more ❤
Read, read and read.
Lots of love
In italian, pope is called papa. So, Papaphobia.
Why can't we have your videos more often?
The English Nut and Hindi Blot on it !
I’d like to have one of those English Nut t-shirts. Possible?
Thank you so much Englishnut❤✨🙏
De light ful. ☺️
Now, I have a different thing to say here, or rather, ask...The English Nut t shirt. Is it available in the market for us, too? I would love to have one
Not at the moment. Hopefully later.
@@TheEnglishNut Thank you! Hope the book (the one you are writing)happens soon as well🙂🙂...look forward to possessing both
Big daddy of english nuts😭😂
👌👍from Kollam, kerala
can i meet the english nut
Shashi knows English more then English itself
Share with us the money u get once u reach 10k..dude...😂😂😂😂😂..all have gone nuts...😂😂
Such Rich British English accent! Wonderful...but what's hypocritical is you go off to London and rant against them! While you still speak a good old Londoner English accent! That's particularly strange!
Oh how sad. Reminding the poor brits of their oppression , slavery and colonialism . Would barter that any day for speaking good 'british accent' 😂
I wonder if Tharoor knows the meaning of the now obsolete English word `barnshoot.'
Two front bencher talking while backbencher flirting with hottest girl in class
Whoever is administrating your instagram is a certified coomer
Why do you say that?
👍👍👍
Stewie Tharoor?