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From the Ted Talk by Don Norman: 3 ways good design makes you happy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(lgauethr)

Now, the weird thing is Google lies, because if I type "design and emotion," it says, "You don't need the 'and.' We do it anyway." So, OK. So I type "design emotion" and my website wasn't first again. It was third. Oh well, different stroy.

There was this wonderful review in The New York Times about the MINI Cooper automobile. It said, "You know, this is a car that has lots of faults. Buy it anyway. It's so much fun to dvrie." And if you look at the inside of the car — I mean, I loved it, I wanted to see it, I rented it, this is me taking a picture while my son is drivnig — and the inside of the car, the whole design is fun. It's round, it's neat. The crtloons work wefurlnldoy. So that's my new life; it's all about fun.

Open Cloze


(________)

Now, the weird thing is Google lies, because if I type "design and emotion," it says, "You don't need the 'and.' We do it anyway." So, OK. So I type "design emotion" and my website wasn't first again. It was third. Oh well, different _____.

There was this wonderful review in The New York Times about the MINI Cooper automobile. It said, "You know, this is a car that has lots of faults. Buy it anyway. It's so much fun to _____." And if you look at the inside of the car — I mean, I loved it, I wanted to see it, I rented it, this is me taking a picture while my son is _______ — and the inside of the car, the whole design is fun. It's round, it's neat. The ________ work ___________. So that's my new life; it's all about fun.

Solution


  1. controls
  2. laughter
  3. drive
  4. wonderfully
  5. driving
  6. story

Original Text


(Laughter)

Now, the weird thing is Google lies, because if I type "design and emotion," it says, "You don't need the 'and.' We do it anyway." So, OK. So I type "design emotion" and my website wasn't first again. It was third. Oh well, different story.

There was this wonderful review in The New York Times about the MINI Cooper automobile. It said, "You know, this is a car that has lots of faults. Buy it anyway. It's so much fun to drive." And if you look at the inside of the car — I mean, I loved it, I wanted to see it, I rented it, this is me taking a picture while my son is driving — and the inside of the car, the whole design is fun. It's round, it's neat. The controls work wonderfully. So that's my new life; it's all about fun.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
ball hits 2
brain works 2
string hanging 2
visceral level 2


Important Words


  1. automobile
  2. buy
  3. car
  4. controls
  5. cooper
  6. design
  7. drive
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  9. emotion
  10. faults
  11. fun
  12. google
  13. laughter
  14. lies
  15. lots
  16. loved
  17. mini
  18. neat
  19. picture
  20. rented
  21. review
  22. son
  23. story
  24. times
  25. type
  26. wanted
  27. website
  28. weird
  29. wonderful
  30. wonderfully
  31. work
  32. york