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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And so, I began to cinrkle up pattoo chip flecks, and also pleterzs. I was looking for some kind of form, and in the end, I made 100 butter-fries. Do you get it? (Laughter) And each butter-fry is composed of different pieces. People ask me how they make the antenna. Sometimes, they find a hair in the food. That's my hair. My hair's clean — it's okay.

I'm a teneurd professor, which manes, basically, I don't have to work anormye. It's a strange business medol. I can come into work everyday and staple five pieces of paper and just stare at it with my latte. End of sorty. (Laughter) But I realized that life could be very boring, so I've been thinking about life, and I notice that my camera — my digital camera versus my car, a very srgatne thing. The car is so big, the camera is so small, yet the manual for the camera is so much bigger than the car manual. It doesn't make any sense. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


And so, I began to _______ up ______ chip flecks, and also ________. I was looking for some kind of form, and in the end, I made 100 butter-fries. Do you get it? (Laughter) And each butter-fry is composed of different pieces. People ask me how they make the antenna. Sometimes, they find a hair in the food. That's my hair. My hair's clean — it's okay.

I'm a _______ professor, which _____, basically, I don't have to work _______. It's a strange business _____. I can come into work everyday and staple five pieces of paper and just stare at it with my latte. End of _____. (Laughter) But I realized that life could be very boring, so I've been thinking about life, and I notice that my camera — my digital camera versus my car, a very _______ thing. The car is so big, the camera is so small, yet the manual for the camera is so much bigger than the car manual. It doesn't make any sense. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. strange
  2. pretzels
  3. anymore
  4. crinkle
  5. means
  6. tenured
  7. potato
  8. model
  9. story

Original Text


And so, I began to crinkle up potato chip flecks, and also pretzels. I was looking for some kind of form, and in the end, I made 100 butter-fries. Do you get it? (Laughter) And each butter-fry is composed of different pieces. People ask me how they make the antenna. Sometimes, they find a hair in the food. That's my hair. My hair's clean — it's okay.

I'm a tenured professor, which means, basically, I don't have to work anymore. It's a strange business model. I can come into work everyday and staple five pieces of paper and just stare at it with my latte. End of story. (Laughter) But I realized that life could be very boring, so I've been thinking about life, and I notice that my camera — my digital camera versus my car, a very strange thing. The car is so big, the camera is so small, yet the manual for the camera is so much bigger than the car manual. It doesn't make any sense. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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muriel cooper 3
paul rand 3
complex stuff 3
computer programs 3
big cookie 3
business model 2
art school 2
graphic designer 2
feel kind 2
clementine peel 2
amber waves 2
cheeto paint 2
ten laws 2
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Important Words


  1. antenna
  2. anymore
  3. basically
  4. began
  5. big
  6. bigger
  7. boring
  8. business
  9. camera
  10. car
  11. chip
  12. clean
  13. composed
  14. crinkle
  15. digital
  16. everyday
  17. find
  18. flecks
  19. food
  20. form
  21. hair
  22. kind
  23. latte
  24. laughter
  25. life
  26. manual
  27. means
  28. model
  29. notice
  30. paper
  31. people
  32. pieces
  33. potato
  34. pretzels
  35. professor
  36. realized
  37. sense
  38. small
  39. staple
  40. stare
  41. story
  42. strange
  43. tenured
  44. thinking
  45. work