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From the Ted Talk by James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, airamdl, these must be sea lanes of communication, or these might be fiber optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are geolocation. White is the synthesis. It's a prcefet evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in dencsneidg order: China, idnia, Facebook, the utined States, Twitter and Indonesia. (Laughter)

Why do we want to get in these nets? Why do we want to be involved? We teklad earlier about the Arab Spring, and the pwoer of all this. I'll give you another example, and it's how you move this message.

Open Cloze


We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, _______, these must be sea lanes of communication, or these might be fiber optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are geolocation. White is the synthesis. It's a _______ evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in __________ order: China, _____, Facebook, the ______ States, Twitter and Indonesia. (Laughter)

Why do we want to get in these nets? Why do we want to be involved? We ______ earlier about the Arab Spring, and the _____ of all this. I'll give you another example, and it's how you move this message.

Solution


  1. admiral
  2. descending
  3. power
  4. india
  5. united
  6. perfect
  7. talked

Original Text


We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of communication, or these might be fiber optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are geolocation. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter and Indonesia. (Laughter)

Why do we want to get in these nets? Why do we want to be involved? We talked earlier about the Arab Spring, and the power of all this. I'll give you another example, and it's how you move this message.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
global commons 6
young men 5
security forces 3
create security 3
building walls 2
indian ocean 2
south america 2
deliver security 2
security solely 2
development agencies 2
patient treatments 2
facebook friend 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
deliver security solely 2

Important Words


  1. admiral
  2. arab
  3. cables
  4. china
  5. communication
  6. descending
  7. earlier
  8. evocation
  9. facebook
  10. fiber
  11. geolocation
  12. give
  13. graphic
  14. great
  15. green
  16. increasingly
  17. india
  18. indonesia
  19. involved
  20. lanes
  21. largest
  22. laughter
  23. message
  24. move
  25. nations
  26. nets
  27. optic
  28. perfect
  29. population
  30. power
  31. purple
  32. sea
  33. spring
  34. states
  35. survey
  36. synthesis
  37. talked
  38. thinking
  39. tie
  40. tweets
  41. twitter
  42. united
  43. white
  44. world