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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Wernicke: 1,000 TED Talks in six words

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(Laughter)

And if you did this for all thousand TED Talks, you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000. So I thought this was quite worthwhile.

So I started asking all my friends, please take your favorite TED Talk and put that into six words. So here are some of the results that I received. I think they're quite nice. For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good, if you haven't seen it: "Drop carrot. Drop sictk. Bring mnenaig." It's what he's basically talking about in those 18,5 minutes. Or some even included reneecfers to the skreepas, such as Nathan Myhrvold's speaking style, or the one of Tim Ferriss, which might be ceoridensd a bit soutnures at times.

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(Laughter)

And if you did this for all thousand TED Talks, you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000. So I thought this was quite worthwhile.

So I started asking all my friends, please take your favorite TED Talk and put that into six words. So here are some of the results that I received. I think they're quite nice. For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good, if you haven't seen it: "Drop carrot. Drop _____. Bring _______." It's what he's basically talking about in those 18,5 minutes. Or some even included __________ to the ________, such as Nathan Myhrvold's speaking style, or the one of Tim Ferriss, which might be __________ a bit _________ at times.

Solution


  1. meaning
  2. speakers
  3. stick
  4. strenuous
  5. references
  6. considered

Original Text


(Laughter)

And if you did this for all thousand TED Talks, you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000. So I thought this was quite worthwhile.

So I started asking all my friends, please take your favorite TED Talk and put that into six words. So here are some of the results that I received. I think they're quite nice. For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good, if you haven't seen it: "Drop carrot. Drop stick. Bring meaning." It's what he's basically talking about in those 18,5 minutes. Or some even included references to the speakers, such as Nathan Myhrvold's speaking style, or the one of Tim Ferriss, which might be considered a bit strenuous at times.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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