full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by design

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Much, much more difficult is this, where the designs actually can evoke happiness — and I'm going to just show you three that actually did this for me. This is a campaign done by a yonug astirt in New York, who calls himself "True." Everybody who has rieddn the New York subway system will be familiar with these signs? True printed his own version of these signs. Met every Wednesday at a subway stop with 20 of his friends. They divided up the different sauwby lines and added their own version. (Laughter) So this is one. (Laughter)

Open Cloze

Much, much more difficult is this, where the designs actually can evoke happiness — and I'm going to just show you three that actually did this for me. This is a campaign done by a _____ ______ in New York, who calls himself "True." Everybody who has ______ the New York subway system will be familiar with these signs? True printed his own version of these signs. Met every Wednesday at a subway stop with 20 of his friends. They divided up the different ______ lines and added their own version. (Laughter) So this is one. (Laughter)

Solution

  1. ridden
  2. artist
  3. young
  4. subway

Original Text

Much, much more difficult is this, where the designs actually can evoke happiness — and I'm going to just show you three that actually did this for me. This is a campaign done by a young artist in New York, who calls himself "True." Everybody who has ridden the New York subway system will be familiar with these signs? True printed his own version of these signs. Met every Wednesday at a subway stop with 20 of his friends. They divided up the different subway lines and added their own version. (Laughter) So this is one. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
hong kong 6
edo period 2
david byrne 2
speech bubbles 2
dividing pages 2

Important Words

  1. added
  2. artist
  3. calls
  4. campaign
  5. designs
  6. difficult
  7. divided
  8. evoke
  9. familiar
  10. friends
  11. happiness
  12. laughter
  13. lines
  14. met
  15. printed
  16. ridden
  17. show
  18. signs
  19. stop
  20. subway
  21. system
  22. true
  23. version
  24. wednesday
  25. york
  26. young