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From the Ted Talk by Javed Akhtar: The gift of words

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We advanced only because we have language. And if we didn’t have that we wouldn’t be here. We would be right where we stetrad.

So what does language mean? Words! So learn to respect words. Love them. Befriend them. lestin to them attentively. And speak aetvlteinty.

Thank you!

(Applause)

SRK: Thanks a lot, Javed Sahab, for coming here today and sharing such wonderful things with us. I have known jvaed Sahab since I came to Mumbai about 25 years ago.

JA: I was really young then.

(Laughter)

SRK: Yes. You are still very young, Sir.

But I have got a lot of my education, my ideologies and many more things from Javed saahb. I’ll share a small incident. He got angry with us while working on a film. He sometimes gets angry when unlettered people like us give him suggestions that maybe we could use this word or that instead. So our film was called

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We advanced only because we have language. And if we didn’t have that we wouldn’t be here. We would be right where we _______.

So what does language mean? Words! So learn to respect words. Love them. Befriend them. ______ to them attentively. And speak ___________.

Thank you!

(Applause)

SRK: Thanks a lot, Javed Sahab, for coming here today and sharing such wonderful things with us. I have known _____ Sahab since I came to Mumbai about 25 years ago.

JA: I was really young then.

(Laughter)

SRK: Yes. You are still very young, Sir.

But I have got a lot of my education, my ideologies and many more things from Javed _____. I’ll share a small incident. He got angry with us while working on a film. He sometimes gets angry when unlettered people like us give him suggestions that maybe we could use this word or that instead. So our film was called

Solution


  1. sahab
  2. started
  3. listen
  4. javed
  5. attentively

Original Text


We advanced only because we have language. And if we didn’t have that we wouldn’t be here. We would be right where we started.

So what does language mean? Words! So learn to respect words. Love them. Befriend them. Listen to them attentively. And speak attentively.

Thank you!

(Applause)

SRK: Thanks a lot, Javed Sahab, for coming here today and sharing such wonderful things with us. I have known Javed Sahab since I came to Mumbai about 25 years ago.

JA: I was really young then.

(Laughter)

SRK: Yes. You are still very young, Sir.

But I have got a lot of my education, my ideologies and many more things from Javed Sahab. I’ll share a small incident. He got angry with us while working on a film. He sometimes gets angry when unlettered people like us give him suggestions that maybe we could use this word or that instead. So our film was called

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