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From the Ted Talk by Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


These are the kinds of soitres that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about ecfnicfeiy, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the stpincirg, the mailing, the doleods in the margins. The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through, with an iiontetnn that is so much harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iPhone is pinging and we've got six conversations rillong in at once, that is an art form that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster," no mttear how many social networks we might join. We still clutch csole these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long. Thank you. (alpapsue) (Applause)

Open Cloze


These are the kinds of _______ that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about __________, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the _________, the mailing, the _______ in the margins. The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through, with an _________ that is so much harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iPhone is pinging and we've got six conversations _______ in at once, that is an art form that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster," no ______ how many social networks we might join. We still clutch _____ these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long. Thank you. (________) (Applause)

Solution


  1. doodles
  2. scripting
  3. stories
  4. matter
  5. efficiency
  6. close
  7. rolling
  8. applause
  9. intention

Original Text


These are the kinds of stories that convinced me that letter-writing will never again need to flip back her hair and talk about efficiency, because she is an art form now, all the parts of her, the signing, the scripting, the mailing, the doodles in the margins. The mere fact that somebody would even just sit down, pull out a piece of paper and think about someone the whole way through, with an intention that is so much harder to unearth when the browser is up and the iPhone is pinging and we've got six conversations rolling in at once, that is an art form that does not fall down to the Goliath of "get faster," no matter how many social networks we might join. We still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long. Thank you. (Applause) (Applause)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
love letters 4
art form 2


Important Words


  1. applause
  2. art
  3. brothers
  4. browser
  5. chest
  6. close
  7. clutch
  8. conversations
  9. convinced
  10. doodles
  11. efficiency
  12. fact
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  16. form
  17. goliath
  18. hair
  19. harder
  20. intention
  21. iphone
  22. join
  23. kinds
  24. letters
  25. long
  26. loud
  27. louder
  28. mailing
  29. margins
  30. matter
  31. mere
  32. needed
  33. networks
  34. pages
  35. palettes
  36. paper
  37. parts
  38. piece
  39. pinging
  40. pull
  41. rolling
  42. scripting
  43. signing
  44. sisters
  45. sit
  46. social
  47. speak
  48. stories
  49. strangers
  50. talk
  51. turn
  52. unearth
  53. words
  54. write