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From the Ted Talk by Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But the problem is that, when I left home and went to clgolee, I started mssinig his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email. So what he had to do was take a piece of paper, roll it into the carriage, type his email or command and pull the paper out. This dvicee would automatically send the ieenndtd person the lteetr as an email. So here you can see, we embedded a lot of electronics that uaendtdnrss all of the mechanical actions and converts it to digital. So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical iatrcfene. And of course, the object had to be very grand and have a sense of ritualism, the way my uncle likes it.

Open Cloze


But the problem is that, when I left home and went to _______, I started _______ his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email. So what he had to do was take a piece of paper, roll it into the carriage, type his email or command and pull the paper out. This ______ would automatically send the ________ person the ______ as an email. So here you can see, we embedded a lot of electronics that ___________ all of the mechanical actions and converts it to digital. So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical _________. And of course, the object had to be very grand and have a sense of ritualism, the way my uncle likes it.

Solution


  1. interface
  2. letter
  3. intended
  4. device
  5. college
  6. missing
  7. understands

Original Text


But the problem is that, when I left home and went to college, I started missing his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email. So what he had to do was take a piece of paper, roll it into the carriage, type his email or command and pull the paper out. This device would automatically send the intended person the letter as an email. So here you can see, we embedded a lot of electronics that understands all of the mechanical actions and converts it to digital. So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical interface. And of course, the object had to be very grand and have a sense of ritualism, the way my uncle likes it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
night sky 3
early prototype 2


Important Words


  1. actions
  2. automatically
  3. carriage
  4. college
  5. command
  6. commands
  7. converts
  8. dealing
  9. device
  10. digital
  11. dispense
  12. electronics
  13. email
  14. embedded
  15. golden
  16. grand
  17. home
  18. intended
  19. interface
  20. left
  21. letter
  22. likes
  23. lot
  24. mechanical
  25. missing
  26. nephews
  27. nieces
  28. object
  29. paper
  30. person
  31. piece
  32. problem
  33. pull
  34. ritualism
  35. roll
  36. send
  37. sense
  38. started
  39. type
  40. typewriter
  41. uncle
  42. understands
  43. world