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From the Ted Talk by Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But most irtntmpaloy, what they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it citonorvasenal. People go out and upragde their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it. I hope that we can do that. It's not a diuliffct thing to do. All we really need to do is look at this iusse as the urgent, shameful issue that it is. And don't think that it's just in the poor world that things are wonrg. Our sewers are crumbling. Things are going wrong here too. The solution to all of this is pretty easy. I'm going to make your lives easy this afternoon and just ask you to do one thing, and that's to go out, protest, speak about the unspeakable, and talk shit.

Open Cloze


But most ___________, what they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it ______________. People go out and _______ their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it. I hope that we can do that. It's not a _________ thing to do. All we really need to do is look at this _____ as the urgent, shameful issue that it is. And don't think that it's just in the poor world that things are _____. Our sewers are crumbling. Things are going wrong here too. The solution to all of this is pretty easy. I'm going to make your lives easy this afternoon and just ask you to do one thing, and that's to go out, protest, speak about the unspeakable, and talk shit.

Solution


  1. importantly
  2. conversational
  3. difficult
  4. issue
  5. wrong
  6. upgrade

Original Text


But most importantly, what they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it. I hope that we can do that. It's not a difficult thing to do. All we really need to do is look at this issue as the urgent, shameful issue that it is. And don't think that it's just in the poor world that things are wrong. Our sewers are crumbling. Things are going wrong here too. The solution to all of this is pretty easy. I'm going to make your lives easy this afternoon and just ask you to do one thing, and that's to go out, protest, speak about the unspeakable, and talk shit.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
clean water 3
adequate toilet 2
poor world 2


Important Words


  1. afternoon
  2. brought
  3. conversational
  4. crumbling
  5. difficult
  6. door
  7. easy
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  9. hope
  10. importantly
  11. inspirational
  12. issue
  13. japan
  14. lives
  15. locked
  16. people
  17. poor
  18. pretty
  19. protest
  20. sanitized
  21. sewers
  22. shameful
  23. shit
  24. solution
  25. speak
  26. talk
  27. toilet
  28. unspeakable
  29. upgrade
  30. urgent
  31. world
  32. wrong