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From the Ted Talk by Negin Farsad: A highly scientific taxonomy of haters
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Most of my work is meant to be fun. It's meant to generate a ccoenoitnn and ltauehgr. But yes, sometimes I get run off the grounds by security. Sometimes I get mean tweets and hate mail. Sometimes I get voice mails saying that if I continue telling my jokes, they'll kill me and they'll kill my family. And those death threats are definitely not funny.
But despite the occasional danger, I still think that saoicl jstuice cmdeoy is one of our best weapons. I mean, we've tried a lot of ahreacppos to social justice, like war and competitive ice dnaicng. But still, a lot of things are still kind of awful. So I think it's time we try and tell a really good poop joke.
Open Cloze
Most of my work is meant to be fun. It's meant to generate a __________ and ________. But yes, sometimes I get run off the grounds by security. Sometimes I get mean tweets and hate mail. Sometimes I get voice mails saying that if I continue telling my jokes, they'll kill me and they'll kill my family. And those death threats are definitely not funny.
But despite the occasional danger, I still think that ______ _______ ______ is one of our best weapons. I mean, we've tried a lot of __________ to social justice, like war and competitive ice _______. But still, a lot of things are still kind of awful. So I think it's time we try and tell a really good poop joke.
Solution
- approaches
- justice
- laughter
- dancing
- connection
- comedy
- social
Original Text
Most of my work is meant to be fun. It's meant to generate a connection and laughter. But yes, sometimes I get run off the grounds by security. Sometimes I get mean tweets and hate mail. Sometimes I get voice mails saying that if I continue telling my jokes, they'll kill me and they'll kill my family. And those death threats are definitely not funny.
But despite the occasional danger, I still think that social justice comedy is one of our best weapons. I mean, we've tried a lot of approaches to social justice, like war and competitive ice dancing. But still, a lot of things are still kind of awful. So I think it's time we try and tell a really good poop joke.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
social justice |
10 |
justice comedy |
6 |
swing hater |
2 |
poop joke |
2 |
poster campaign |
2 |
york city |
2 |
fellow comedian |
2 |
muslims invented |
2 |
considered political |
2 |
denounces terrorism |
2 |
cayman islands |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
collocation |
frequency |
social justice comedy |
6 |
Important Words
- approaches
- awful
- comedy
- competitive
- connection
- continue
- dancing
- danger
- death
- family
- fun
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- generate
- good
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- hate
- ice
- joke
- jokes
- justice
- kill
- kind
- laughter
- lot
- mail
- mails
- meant
- occasional
- poop
- run
- security
- social
- telling
- threats
- time
- tweets
- voice
- war
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- work