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From the Ted Talk by Karina Galperin: Should we simplify spelling?

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But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early linaerng of language who promoted spelling remorfs, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge. In our case, for example, srneaitmo, together with Andrés Bello, sadepheeard the biggest spelling reform to take place in the Spanish language: the mid-19th century Chilean reform. Then, why not take over the task of those teachers and start making progress in our seplinlg? Here, in this iinmttae group of 10,000, I'd like to bring to the table some changes that I find reasonable to start discussing.

Open Cloze

But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early ________ of language who promoted spelling _______, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge. In our case, for example, _________, together with Andrés Bello, ___________ the biggest spelling reform to take place in the Spanish language: the mid-19th century Chilean reform. Then, why not take over the task of those teachers and start making progress in our ________? Here, in this ________ group of 10,000, I'd like to bring to the table some changes that I find reasonable to start discussing.

Solution

  1. learning
  2. spelling
  3. reforms
  4. sarmiento
  5. intimate
  6. spearheaded

Original Text

But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early learning of language who promoted spelling reforms, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge. In our case, for example, Sarmiento, together with Andrés Bello, spearheaded the biggest spelling reform to take place in the Spanish language: the mid-19th century Chilean reform. Then, why not take over the task of those teachers and start making progress in our spelling? Here, in this intimate group of 10,000, I'd like to bring to the table some changes that I find reasonable to start discussing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
write words 3
current rules 3
spanish language 2
phonetic approach 2
big amounts 2
spelling rules 2
common criteria 2
spelling reform 2
people written 2

Important Words

  1. andrés
  2. bello
  3. biggest
  4. bring
  5. case
  6. century
  7. chilean
  8. discussing
  9. early
  10. find
  11. forget
  12. group
  13. history
  14. intimate
  15. involved
  16. knowledge
  17. language
  18. learning
  19. making
  20. obstacle
  21. people
  22. place
  23. progress
  24. promoted
  25. realized
  26. reasonable
  27. reform
  28. reforms
  29. sarmiento
  30. spanish
  31. spearheaded
  32. spelling
  33. start
  34. table
  35. task
  36. teachers
  37. transmission