How native speakers pronounce “words”

find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous beneath it were the words stay hungry stay foolish it was their

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nothing for between 6 and 15 minutes in other words to spend time alone with their thoughts

Running

At 25, Emma came to my office because she was, in her words, having an identity crisis. She said she thought she might like to work in art or entertainment,

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but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank that comes after the words "In case of emergency, please call ..."

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

You control your reactions. The best advice I ever got was five words: Do the next right thing.

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(Laughter) This is also bad handwriting, but I did highlight some key words. You get the idea.

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can be just as important as the words that we use in these conversations. What are the unknowns?

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including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgment. In other words, the very type of brain activity that’s responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

But each of you has something like that. A place in which words matter. The right words can win

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

A place in which words matter. The right words can win and the wrong words huge difference.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

The right words can win and the wrong words huge difference. Five months ago, I stood before that podium

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

or you might find it difficult to remember things, like finding the right words ... when you're doing a public talk that you've had to memorize.

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She taught me to quiet my own thoughts and to trust myself to come up with the words after the other person had spoken.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

"The computer says so." Four words, human judgment ends, then people just fold like a cheap lawn chair.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

AlphaFold predicts the structure of proteins rather than words and sentences, but under the hood, it's not much different from Claude or GPT,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Validating. But what do these words say to you if you're single? Anybody single here?

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

What do you think?" The woman who used those words was successfully promoted. Here's another one.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

The average person talks at about 225 word per minute, but we can listen at up to 500 words per minute. So our minds are filling in those other 275 words.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

but we can listen at up to 500 words per minute. So our minds are filling in those other 275 words. And look, I know, it takes effort and energy

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

In desire, we want a bridge to cross. Or in other words, I sometimes say, fire needs air. Desire needs space.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

and video conferencing with the camera on. So in other words, if we're chatting face-to-face or if we're chatting through video conferencing

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

through the lens of those expected norms. In other words, who do other people see? And more importantly, do they approve of who they see?

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

an “obesogenic environment” -- in other words, systemically and perpetually geared towards creating obesity --

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

a live-action version of Whac-A-Mole, or when I'm struggling to find the words to write a eulogy hours after losing one of my closest friends.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

and one of the benefits of my weekly game is that the people I play with don't care how many words I've written or how many books I've sold. They care that I show up on time and that I'm a good teammate.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

instead of asking someone, "What do you do?" I encourage you to add two small words to your question. Instead, ask them,

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

And yet, the haunting last words of Eric Garner were: "I can't breathe." And his daughter Erica died at 27 years old,

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

we're going to keep doing Septima's work until her words become reality, until Black women are no longer dying,

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Silence doesn't ask us to prove or disprove a thing. Words so often cut us in two. I believe this, and you believe that.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

I notice things that I would never see when my mind is filled with words, the light on the water or those rabbits scuffling through the undergrowth.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

I really feel that the deepest part of us lies beyond all words. And again, I know this isn't 100 percent guaranteed.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

or when you step out into that sunrise, the truest words that come to you may be none at all. We're all worried, as we should be,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

and step for a moment, or two hours, into a place where no words are required. Nothing bad can come of it, and something good,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

by joining in a long moment of saying nothing. After a long week of words, what a moment to share. Thank you so very much.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

She knew that she had only one thing to do at that point, and that was to, in her words, "run like hell." And she would run like hell to the house

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

I've come to understand the meaning of these words not as a binary statement and I do or and I don't, but as

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we can take what are like little snapshots of the brain while it’s reading. So have people read words or stories and then take pictures of their brain. And those brain images are like fuzzy,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

And you know, of course that apartments and houses are more similar than they are to celery, just the words. So said another way,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

So said another way, the brain uses its scratchpad when reading the words "apartment" and "house" in a way that's more similar than when you read the word "celery."

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

What about for more complicated things, not just words, but sentences, even stories? Again, this scratch pad prediction task works.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

it’s beginning to change your language, too. And it's not just new words to avoid algorithmic censorship. The very structure of social media is changing where words come from,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

And it's not just new words to avoid algorithmic censorship. The very structure of social media is changing where words come from, how words get popular and how quickly those words spread.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

The very structure of social media is changing where words come from, how words get popular and how quickly those words spread. I believe some of you might be familiar with this song.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

a meme that went massively viral last year. It's full of current middle-school slang words, like "rizz," "gyat" and "skibidi,"

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

like "rizz," "gyat" and "skibidi," and was instrumental in popularizing those words to a broader audience. This is because social-media algorithms reward repetition.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

since it's proven to drive engagement on the app. The same is true of memes, or words in general, since trending metadata, like hashtags,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

we saw an explosion of people making videos with the words “rizz,” “gyat” and “skibidi,” because they knew those videos would do well.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

because they knew those videos would do well. And as a result, the words spread. Language has always been a little bit like a virus.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

Language has always been a little bit like a virus. Words are transmitted from one host to another, reproducing and changing as they infect different people along social networks.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

because that makes our videos do better, which helps us earn a living. This means that we often end up creating and spreading words that help the system.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

The entire reason these aesthetics exist is because the TikTok algorithm has decided that words like cottagecore qualify as trending metadata,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

because language change is always driven by groups with shared interests that have a shared need to invent new words. "Unalive," for example, became a thing

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

(Laughter) And a lot of people similarly encounter these words as they spread in ironic or meme contexts.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

as a way to reclaim power. All of our most popular internet slang words -- "slay," "serve,"

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

all come from queer or Black culture. These words originated as a form of creative expression, independent from the straight white norms of the English language.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

independent from the straight white norms of the English language. But when those words began to be used online, they were quickly taken by people who wanted to capitalize

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

which, at this point, have become so mainstream they're just seen as regular words. But once again, social-media algorithms

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

They create communities that feel like they have a space to use their words, and then open up those communities,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

and then open up those communities, just enough to allow those words to spread. That's how we got "unalive."

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

but because the underlying idea is making fun of how incels talk. In fact, I think each of these words is a beautiful, colorful addition to the English language

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

may have been conditioned by the algorithm. We should be aware when the words we're using may have been engineered to sell us things.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

AI is vastly more data-hungry than humans. For example, we train our language models on the order of one trillion words now. Well, how many words do we get?

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

For example, we train our language models on the order of one trillion words now. Well, how many words do we get? Just 100 million.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

You might not be able to see it. It would take us 24,000 years to read the rest of the one trillion words. OK, now, you might say that's unfair.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

For instance, large language models need no introduction today. GPT-3 was trained on hundreds of billions of words. Texts from articles,

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But jokes aside, George's words reveal for me a more profound truth. AI can provide a sense of understanding

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So these fears are not new, not novel. But now, in the immortal words of Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap," they go to 11.

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man left his job in big Pharma to start his own gym he tattooed the words breathe and think on his right hand and

Mark

the abrahamic faiths call Desert dwelling in other words therein the messy metal I call it the messy middle because it's messy

Desert

who was nonverbal for three years, and within three days of starting leucovorin began to say his first words. (Applause)

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and like Mason's parents did, and heard the words "We've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

summoned memories of places he loved in other words he used his own life story to write a new story of creativity

Create

I felt stuck now I'm beginning to feel unstuck stories are made of language and words use words that help you confirm your progress

Tell

stories are made of language and words use words that help you confirm your progress two make pigs fly

Tell

and to utter the most spellbinding life-affirming words we can utter the words that suggest a new story is coming

Tell

life-affirming words we can utter the words that suggest a new story is coming maybe even a fairy tale

Tell

straight-up hate generative AI. And we know, from their own words, that one of the reasons for this is that we're training on their work without asking them.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

And I don't know what I'm supposed to do if typing words in a row stops being a semi profitable occupation. Now I'm a libertarian columnist,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

But the Luddites weren't your mom using a landline instead of a cell phone or sending you Hallmark cards with little words underlined. They were skilled artisans who made handcrafted textiles

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

it exists for its own sake in other words it's not about building status being productive or making money

Leisure

to start over again with lessons learned. In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

So what was this magical mantra that transformed my life for better? "Thank you" were the two simple words that filled the space between my ears like a music in my head.

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

They feel regret for all sorts of things. For things they didn't do and words they didn't say. Deep down, they want to know that their lives have mattered.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

We can choose to say nothing and hope that our words will sufficiently honor the person who's no longer here with us.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

And on this unrepeatable night, I didn't have to worry about trying to find the words to tell him all that he'd meant to me

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

lend a helping hand, or some words of encouragement or an offer of support to a neighbor,

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(Laughter) Everything you've heard, in other words, about the less than glamorous side of being a CEO, it's true.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

and using your body to say that you need to get past, instead of using two words. In Egypt, I'm told,

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

Because I am talking to you. And I know that we use the words art and artist, and we kind of pedestal it,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

Then I remembered that he was four and barely spoke English. So I reverted to two words he definitely knew: ice cream.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

and I want you to shout out what you can see, because it's got words on it, OK? Can anyone see what it says?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

Do you give each other the benefit of the doubt? Thriving couples are tender with their touch, with their words, with their presence,

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

you're going to have to do much more of what I want in other words it's increasingly a much more Chinese

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towards a more Chinese model in other words the United States is increasingly saying we don't care about these

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

So these kinds of conversations, misunderstandings, long explanations of jokes and words shape our relationship.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

than in any language learned later in life. Now I grew up with the words “ich liebe dich” from my parents, so over the years of my life,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

It's very often the impact that matters more instead of the words. It's the classic,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

gases on earth. In other words, we cannot solve climate change unless we

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it takes me double the energy to find the right words in these heated moments. His responses are immediate,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

So build your love language. Invent new words that don't exist. Switch between your languages as much as possible.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED