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From the Ted Talk by Milton Glaser: Using design to make ideas new

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Sometimes, in the middle of a resistant problem, I wrtie down things that I know about it. But you can see the beginning of an idea there, because you can see the word "new" emerging from the "old." That's what happens. There's a relationship between the old and the new; the new emerges from the context of the old. And then I did some variations of it, but it still wasn't coalescing glricahplay at all. I had this other version which had something interesting about it in terms of being able to put it together in your mind from clues. The W was clearly a W, the N was clearly an N, even though they were very fgtearamrny and there wasn't a lot of iooarfmnitn in it. Then I got the words "new" and "old" and now I had regressed back to a point where there seemed to be no return.

Open Cloze

Sometimes, in the middle of a resistant problem, I _____ down things that I know about it. But you can see the beginning of an idea there, because you can see the word "new" emerging from the "old." That's what happens. There's a relationship between the old and the new; the new emerges from the context of the old. And then I did some variations of it, but it still wasn't coalescing ___________ at all. I had this other version which had something interesting about it in terms of being able to put it together in your mind from clues. The W was clearly a W, the N was clearly an N, even though they were very ___________ and there wasn't a lot of ___________ in it. Then I got the words "new" and "old" and now I had regressed back to a point where there seemed to be no return.

Solution

  1. fragmentary
  2. write
  3. information
  4. graphically

Original Text

Sometimes, in the middle of a resistant problem, I write down things that I know about it. But you can see the beginning of an idea there, because you can see the word "new" emerging from the "old." That's what happens. There's a relationship between the old and the new; the new emerges from the context of the old. And then I did some variations of it, but it still wasn't coalescing graphically at all. I had this other version which had something interesting about it in terms of being able to put it together in your mind from clues. The W was clearly a W, the N was clearly an N, even though they were very fragmentary and there wasn't a lot of information in it. Then I got the words "new" and "old" and now I had regressed back to a point where there seemed to be no return.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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