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From the Ted Talk by Jorge Drexler: Poetry, music and identity
Unscramble the Blue Letters
(Applause)
To which, by the way, Vicente Espinel, in the 16th century, added a sixth string. It's ainamzg how all these things are coming full circle.
What have I learned in these 15 years since the song was born from going all over the world with four lines written on a coaster from a bar in Madrid? That dcméais, the milonga, songs, people — the clsoer you get to them, the more complex their identity becomes, and the more neuacns and details appear. I learned that identity is iinnefilty dense, like an infinite series of real nbmuers, and that even if you get very close and zoom in, it never ends.
Open Cloze
(Applause)
To which, by the way, Vicente Espinel, in the 16th century, added a sixth string. It's _______ how all these things are coming full circle.
What have I learned in these 15 years since the song was born from going all over the world with four lines written on a coaster from a bar in Madrid? That _______, the milonga, songs, people — the ______ you get to them, the more complex their identity becomes, and the more _______ and details appear. I learned that identity is __________ dense, like an infinite series of real _______, and that even if you get very close and zoom in, it never ends.
Solution
- amazing
- nuances
- décimas
- numbers
- infinitely
- closer
Original Text
(Applause)
To which, by the way, Vicente Espinel, in the 16th century, added a sixth string. It's amazing how all these things are coming full circle.
What have I learned in these 15 years since the song was born from going all over the world with four lines written on a coaster from a bar in Madrid? That Décimas, the milonga, songs, people — the closer you get to them, the more complex their identity becomes, and the more nuances and details appear. I learned that identity is infinitely dense, like an infinite series of real numbers, and that even if you get very close and zoom in, it never ends.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| jewish moor |
5 |
| spanish guitar |
3 |
| sixth string |
2 |
| line rhymes |
2 |
| life blown |
2 |
| terrible school |
2 |
| sad piece |
2 |
| son jarocho |
2 |
| finished playing |
2 |
Important Words
- added
- amazing
- applause
- bar
- born
- century
- circle
- close
- closer
- coaster
- coming
- complex
- dense
- details
- décimas
- ends
- espinel
- full
- identity
- infinite
- infinitely
- learned
- lines
- madrid
- milonga
- nuances
- numbers
- people
- real
- series
- sixth
- song
- songs
- string
- vicente
- world
- written
- years
- zoom