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From the Ted Talk by Channing Gerard Joseph: How Black queer culture shaped history
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Hello folks, I'd like to start with a song and the lyrics of the song are: "Walk lghit, ldieas, the cake's all dough. You need not mind the whetear if the wind don't blow." So if you can repeat after me, "Walk light ladies, the cake's all dough."
Audience: "Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough."
CGJ: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
Audience: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
CGJ: Ok, so you got it. So I’ll sing.
(Singing) “Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all duogh, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. ... Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow.”
Open Cloze
Hello folks, I'd like to start with a song and the lyrics of the song are: "Walk _____, ______, the cake's all dough. You need not mind the _______ if the wind don't blow." So if you can repeat after me, "Walk light ladies, the cake's all dough."
Audience: "Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough."
CGJ: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
Audience: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
CGJ: Ok, so you got it. So I’ll sing.
(Singing) “Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all _____, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. ... Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow.”
Solution
- weather
- light
- dough
- ladies
Original Text
Hello folks, I'd like to start with a song and the lyrics of the song are: "Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough. You need not mind the weather if the wind don't blow." So if you can repeat after me, "Walk light ladies, the cake's all dough."
Audience: "Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough."
CGJ: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
Audience: "You needn't mind the weather if the wind don't blow."
CGJ: Ok, so you got it. So I’ll sing.
(Singing) “Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. Walk light, ladies, the cake’s all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow. ... Walk light, ladies, the cake's all dough, you needn’t mind the weather if the wind don’t blow.”
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| black queer |
6 |
| emancipation day |
3 |
| black americans |
2 |
| queer people |
2 |
| assigned male |
2 |
| shared history |
2 |
| william dorsey |
2 |
| earliest documented |
2 |
| positive terms |
2 |
Important Words
- blow
- dough
- folks
- ladies
- light
- lyrics
- mind
- repeat
- sing
- singing
- song
- start
- walk
- weather
- wind