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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Let's have a look at the third question. It's a line from a poem by John kaets. Words, like nurbmes, express fnumaaentdl relationships between objects and events and frecos that constitute our wolrd. It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships. And poets, like other artists, play with those inuiitvte understandings. In the case of hare, it's an ambiguous sound in English. It can also mean the fibers that grow from a head. And if we think of that — let me put the picture up — the fibers represent vliatuiblnrey. They yield to the slightest movement or miootn or emotion. So what you have is an atmosphere of vulnerability and tsieonn. The hare itself, the animal — not a cat, not a dog, a hare — why a hare? Because think of the picture — not the word, the picture. The overlong ears, the overlarge feet, helps us to picture, to feel intuitively, what it means to limp and to tremble.

Open Cloze


Let's have a look at the third question. It's a line from a poem by John _____. Words, like _______, express ___________ relationships between objects and events and ______ that constitute our _____. It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships. And poets, like other artists, play with those _________ understandings. In the case of hare, it's an ambiguous sound in English. It can also mean the fibers that grow from a head. And if we think of that — let me put the picture up — the fibers represent _____________. They yield to the slightest movement or ______ or emotion. So what you have is an atmosphere of vulnerability and _______. The hare itself, the animal — not a cat, not a dog, a hare — why a hare? Because think of the picture — not the word, the picture. The overlong ears, the overlarge feet, helps us to picture, to feel intuitively, what it means to limp and to tremble.

Solution


  1. vulnerability
  2. intuitive
  3. world
  4. forces
  5. motion
  6. numbers
  7. tension
  8. keats
  9. fundamental

Original Text


Let's have a look at the third question. It's a line from a poem by John Keats. Words, like numbers, express fundamental relationships between objects and events and forces that constitute our world. It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships. And poets, like other artists, play with those intuitive understandings. In the case of hare, it's an ambiguous sound in English. It can also mean the fibers that grow from a head. And if we think of that — let me put the picture up — the fibers represent vulnerability. They yield to the slightest movement or motion or emotion. So what you have is an atmosphere of vulnerability and tension. The hare itself, the animal — not a cat, not a dog, a hare — why a hare? Because think of the picture — not the word, the picture. The overlong ears, the overlarge feet, helps us to picture, to feel intuitively, what it means to limp and to tremble.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
cube roots 2


Important Words


  1. absorb
  2. ambiguous
  3. animal
  4. artists
  5. atmosphere
  6. case
  7. cat
  8. constitute
  9. dog
  10. ears
  11. emotion
  12. english
  13. events
  14. existing
  15. express
  16. feel
  17. feet
  18. fibers
  19. forces
  20. fundamental
  21. grow
  22. hare
  23. head
  24. helps
  25. intuitive
  26. intuitively
  27. john
  28. keats
  29. limp
  30. line
  31. lives
  32. means
  33. motion
  34. movement
  35. numbers
  36. objects
  37. overlarge
  38. overlong
  39. picture
  40. play
  41. poem
  42. poets
  43. put
  44. question
  45. reason
  46. relationships
  47. represent
  48. slightest
  49. sound
  50. stands
  51. tension
  52. tremble
  53. understandings
  54. vulnerability
  55. word
  56. words
  57. world
  58. yield