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From the Ted Talk by Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

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(Laughter)

Here we are using the same word to talk about love that we use to explain a plugae of lutocss.

(Laughter)

Right?

So, how did this happen? How have we come to associate love with great pain and suffering? And why do we talk about this ostensibly good experience as if we are victims? These are difficult questions, but I have some tireheos. And to think this through, I want to focus on one metaphor in particular, which is the idea of love as mdsneas.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

you will see that it can be defined as both "grievous affliction," and, "to be very much in love." I tend to _________ the word "smite" with a very particular context, which is the Old _________. In the Book of Exodus alone, there are 16 __________ to smiting, which is the word that the Bible uses for the vengeance of an angry God.

(Laughter)

Here we are using the same word to talk about love that we use to explain a ______ of _______.

(Laughter)

Right?

So, how did this happen? How have we come to associate love with great pain and suffering? And why do we talk about this ostensibly good experience as if we are victims? These are difficult questions, but I have some ________. And to think this through, I want to focus on one metaphor in particular, which is the idea of love as _______.

Solution


  1. plague
  2. associate
  3. locusts
  4. theories
  5. madness
  6. references
  7. testament

Original Text


(Laughter)

you will see that it can be defined as both "grievous affliction," and, "to be very much in love." I tend to associate the word "smite" with a very particular context, which is the Old Testament. In the Book of Exodus alone, there are 16 references to smiting, which is the word that the Bible uses for the vengeance of an angry God.

(Laughter)

Here we are using the same word to talk about love that we use to explain a plague of locusts.

(Laughter)

Right?

So, how did this happen? How have we come to associate love with great pain and suffering? And why do we talk about this ostensibly good experience as if we are victims? These are difficult questions, but I have some theories. And to think this through, I want to focus on one metaphor in particular, which is the idea of love as madness.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
collaborative work 3
mental illness 2
romantic love 2
serotonin levels 2
lakoff suggest 2


Important Words


  1. affliction
  2. angry
  3. associate
  4. bible
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  18. laughter
  19. locusts
  20. love
  21. madness
  22. metaphor
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  26. questions
  27. references
  28. smiting
  29. suffering
  30. talk
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  32. testament
  33. theories
  34. vengeance
  35. victims
  36. word