full transcript

From the Ted Talk by John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

I'm working on it.

I started to think about what makes wodrs real, because a lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people is, "Well, are these words made up? I don't really understand." And I didn't really know what to tell them because once sonder sartted to take off, who am I to say what words are real and what aren't. And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his epiphany as when he realized that most of us, as we go through the day, we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much and just sort of get on with things. But once you raeizle that people — that this world was built by people no smarter than you, then you can reach out and touch those wllas and even put your hand through them and realize that you have the pwoer to change it.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

I'm working on it.

I started to think about what makes _____ real, because a lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people is, "Well, are these words made up? I don't really understand." And I didn't really know what to tell them because once sonder _______ to take off, who am I to say what words are real and what aren't. And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his epiphany as when he realized that most of us, as we go through the day, we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much and just sort of get on with things. But once you _______ that people — that this world was built by people no smarter than you, then you can reach out and touch those _____ and even put your hand through them and realize that you have the _____ to change it.

Solution


  1. words
  2. power
  3. walls
  4. started
  5. realize

Original Text


(Laughter)

I'm working on it.

I started to think about what makes words real, because a lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people is, "Well, are these words made up? I don't really understand." And I didn't really know what to tell them because once sonder started to take off, who am I to say what words are real and what aren't. And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his epiphany as when he realized that most of us, as we go through the day, we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much and just sort of get on with things. But once you realize that people — that this world was built by people no smarter than you, then you can reach out and touch those walls and even put your hand through them and realize that you have the power to change it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
english language 2
worth knowing 2
realest word 2


Important Words


  1. avoid
  2. bouncing
  3. built
  4. change
  5. common
  6. day
  7. epiphany
  8. felt
  9. hand
  10. jobs
  11. laughter
  12. lot
  13. people
  14. power
  15. put
  16. reach
  17. real
  18. realize
  19. realized
  20. smarter
  21. sonder
  22. sort
  23. started
  24. steve
  25. touch
  26. understand
  27. walls
  28. words
  29. working
  30. world