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From the Ted Talk by Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps

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No, we do two important things to make a place our own. First, we move along lenair retuos. Typically, we find a main street, and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our minds. But our mind keeps it pttery silmpe, yeah? Every srteet is generally perceived as a straight line, and we kind of ignore the little twists and turns that the streets make. When we do, however, make a turn into a side street, our mind tends to adjust that turn to a 90-degree agnle. This of course makes for some funny moments when you're in some old city layout that follows some sort of circular city logic, yeah? Maybe you've had that exneecipre as well.

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No, we do two important things to make a place our own. First, we move along ______ ______. Typically, we find a main street, and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our minds. But our mind keeps it ______ ______, yeah? Every ______ is generally perceived as a straight line, and we kind of ignore the little twists and turns that the streets make. When we do, however, make a turn into a side street, our mind tends to adjust that turn to a 90-degree _____. This of course makes for some funny moments when you're in some old city layout that follows some sort of circular city logic, yeah? Maybe you've had that __________ as well.

Solution

  1. angle
  2. experience
  3. routes
  4. simple
  5. street
  6. pretty
  7. linear

Original Text

No, we do two important things to make a place our own. First, we move along linear routes. Typically, we find a main street, and this main street becomes a linear strip map in our minds. But our mind keeps it pretty simple, yeah? Every street is generally perceived as a straight line, and we kind of ignore the little twists and turns that the streets make. When we do, however, make a turn into a side street, our mind tends to adjust that turn to a 90-degree angle. This of course makes for some funny moments when you're in some old city layout that follows some sort of circular city logic, yeah? Maybe you've had that experience as well.

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Important Words

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  36. typically
  37. yeah