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From the Ted Talk by Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

Literally.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

When is a visual cliché good or bad? It's a fine line. And it really depends on the story. In 2011, during the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, I was thinking of a cover. And I went through the cslsaic symbols: the jaenaspe flag, "The Great Wave" by Hokusai, one of the greatest drawings ever. And then the story changed when the situation at the power plant in Fukushima got out of hand. And I remember these TV images of the wrkreos in hazamt stius, just walking through the site, and what struck me was how quiet and sneere it was. And so I weatnd to create an image of a silent catastrophe. And that's the image I came up with.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

Literally.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

When is a visual cliché good or bad? It's a fine line. And it really depends on the story. In 2011, during the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, I was thinking of a cover. And I went through the _______ symbols: the ________ flag, "The Great Wave" by Hokusai, one of the greatest drawings ever. And then the story changed when the situation at the power plant in Fukushima got out of hand. And I remember these TV images of the _______ in ______ _____, just walking through the site, and what struck me was how quiet and ______ it was. And so I ______ to create an image of a silent catastrophe. And that's the image I came up with.

Solution


  1. workers
  2. serene
  3. hazmat
  4. japanese
  5. wanted
  6. suits
  7. classic

Original Text


(Laughter)

Literally.

(Laughter)

(Applause)

When is a visual cliché good or bad? It's a fine line. And it really depends on the story. In 2011, during the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, I was thinking of a cover. And I went through the classic symbols: the Japanese flag, "The Great Wave" by Hokusai, one of the greatest drawings ever. And then the story changed when the situation at the power plant in Fukushima got out of hand. And I remember these TV images of the workers in hazmat suits, just walking through the site, and what struck me was how quiet and serene it was. And so I wanted to create an image of a silent catastrophe. And that's the image I came up with.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
reading images 2


Important Words


  1. applause
  2. bad
  3. catastrophe
  4. changed
  5. classic
  6. cliché
  7. cover
  8. create
  9. depends
  10. drawings
  11. earthquake
  12. fine
  13. flag
  14. fukushima
  15. good
  16. great
  17. greatest
  18. hand
  19. hazmat
  20. hokusai
  21. image
  22. images
  23. japan
  24. japanese
  25. laughter
  26. line
  27. literally
  28. plant
  29. power
  30. quiet
  31. remember
  32. serene
  33. silent
  34. site
  35. situation
  36. story
  37. struck
  38. suits
  39. thinking
  40. tsunami
  41. tv
  42. visual
  43. walking
  44. wanted
  45. workers