Epeolatry

(Reply  received from Ms. Fussy Zaroor , a Gen Z  Intern at Mr. Shashi Tharoor's Office, in response to the note written yesterday  in Tharoorian English on the subject of US-Iran Agreement. Is she appreciating me or ridiculing!? Should I escalate it up in his Office? No point, I will get more confused!) Dear Mr. Pankaj Khanna , I must confess to a certain amused admiration for your exuberant deplolyment of sesquipedalian artillery. To marshal expressions such as “diplomatic metaphysics,” “kakistocracy,” and “parturient” into a single paragraph requires either remarkable lexical confidence or a touching disregard for the welfare of unsuspecting dictionaries and the readers. Vaocabulary, however recherché, is but the embroidery upon the fabric of prose; the true elegance of expression resides in precision of thought, felicity of construction, and the quiet confidence that words need not perpetually announce their own sophistication. One sprinkles seasoning upon a meal; i...

I have tried to copy  Shashi Tharoor's style using his favourite words. I think this is how he will write  about Iran-Us Agreement: At an undisclosed longitude of diplomatic metaphysics, two venerable custodians of strategic bewilderment, one believer of Kakistocracy and another parturient to deliver, reportedly initialled a parchment whose principal achievement was lexical acrobatics. Each returned home garlanded in self-congratulation, having simultaneously conceded nothing, secured everything, and left posterity to arbitrate whether the commas or the silences proved more consequential. Hopefully Shashi Tharoor will read it, correct my mistakes and reply to me. His reply, if any, will be posted in the next Blog Post! List of  previous Articles of ' Epeolatry':  1      Epeolatry by a Philomath.    2      Amicable Numbers 3      Retrouvaille 4      Aeipathy 5      Ambigram 6   ...