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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


  1. approaches
  2. justice
  3. laughter
  4. dancing
  5. connection
  6. comedy
  7. 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


  1. approaches
  2. awful
  3. comedy
  4. competitive
  5. connection
  6. continue
  7. dancing
  8. danger
  9. death
  10. family
  11. fun
  12. funny
  13. generate
  14. good
  15. grounds
  16. hate
  17. ice
  18. joke
  19. jokes
  20. justice
  21. kill
  22. kind
  23. laughter
  24. lot
  25. mail
  26. mails
  27. meant
  28. occasional
  29. poop
  30. run
  31. security
  32. social
  33. telling
  34. threats
  35. time
  36. tweets
  37. voice
  38. war
  39. weapons
  40. work