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From the Ted Talk by James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral's thoughts on global security

Unscramble the Blue Letters

We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of cnoticaimomun, or these might be febir optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are giootcoaeln. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United staets, Twitter and Indonesia. (lueahgtr)

Open Cloze

We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of _____________, or these might be _____ optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are ___________. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United ______, Twitter and Indonesia. (________)

Solution

  1. geolocation
  2. laughter
  3. fiber
  4. states
  5. communication

Original Text

We tie it together, increasingly, by doing things like this. Now, you're looking at this thinking, "Ah, Admiral, these must be sea lanes of communication, or these might be fiber optic cables." No. This is a graphic of the world according to Twitter. Purple are tweets. Green are geolocation. White is the synthesis. It's a perfect evocation of that great population survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter and Indonesia. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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global commons 6
young men 5
security forces 3
create security 3
building walls 2
indian ocean 2
south america 2
deliver security 2
security solely 2
development agencies 2
patient treatments 2
facebook friend 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
deliver security solely 2

Important Words

  1. admiral
  2. cables
  3. china
  4. communication
  5. descending
  6. evocation
  7. facebook
  8. fiber
  9. geolocation
  10. graphic
  11. great
  12. green
  13. increasingly
  14. india
  15. indonesia
  16. lanes
  17. largest
  18. laughter
  19. nations
  20. optic
  21. perfect
  22. population
  23. purple
  24. sea
  25. states
  26. survey
  27. synthesis
  28. thinking
  29. tie
  30. tweets
  31. twitter
  32. united
  33. white
  34. world