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From the Ted Talk by Archie Crowley: Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has)

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Language is a powerful tool for explaining and claiming our own iitndeteis and for building relationships that affirm and support us. But langauge is just that, a tool. Language works for us, not the other way around. All of us, transgender and cisgender can use language to understand ourselves and to respect those around us. We're not bound by what wrods have manet before, what order they might have come in or what rules we have been taught. We can consider the beliefs that we might have had about how language works and recognize that language will continue to cghnae. And we can creatively use language to build the identities and relationships that bring us joy. And that's not just allowable. It's right. Believe me.

Open Cloze


Language is a powerful tool for explaining and claiming our own __________ and for building relationships that affirm and support us. But ________ is just that, a tool. Language works for us, not the other way around. All of us, transgender and cisgender can use language to understand ourselves and to respect those around us. We're not bound by what _____ have _____ before, what order they might have come in or what rules we have been taught. We can consider the beliefs that we might have had about how language works and recognize that language will continue to ______. And we can creatively use language to build the identities and relationships that bring us joy. And that's not just allowable. It's right. Believe me.

Solution


  1. words
  2. change
  3. identities
  4. meant
  5. language

Original Text


Language is a powerful tool for explaining and claiming our own identities and for building relationships that affirm and support us. But language is just that, a tool. Language works for us, not the other way around. All of us, transgender and cisgender can use language to understand ourselves and to respect those around us. We're not bound by what words have meant before, what order they might have come in or what rules we have been taught. We can consider the beliefs that we might have had about how language works and recognize that language will continue to change. And we can creatively use language to build the identities and relationships that bring us joy. And that's not just allowable. It's right. Believe me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
trans people 9
linguists study 2
grammar rules 2
trans person 2
language works 2


Important Words


  1. affirm
  2. allowable
  3. beliefs
  4. bound
  5. bring
  6. build
  7. building
  8. change
  9. cisgender
  10. claiming
  11. continue
  12. creatively
  13. explaining
  14. identities
  15. joy
  16. language
  17. meant
  18. order
  19. powerful
  20. recognize
  21. relationships
  22. respect
  23. rules
  24. support
  25. taught
  26. tool
  27. transgender
  28. understand
  29. words
  30. works