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PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 10 - 16, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 new postings):

1. Use and Misuse of English (3rd of 3-part series): “Strategies for avoiding repetition and abstruse stock phrases – III (February 16, 2018)


 

2. Making Light of What We Do for a Living: “60 really amusing job descriptions” (February 16, 2018)


 

3. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2018)


 

4. A Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (February 15, 2018)


 

5. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 15, 2018)


 

6. Just For This Day of the Hearts: “A Dozen Romantic Rhymes with Unromantic Twists” (February 14, 2018)


 

7. A Valentine’s Day Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 14, 2018)


 

8. Use and Misuse of English (2nd of 3-part series): “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words – II” (February 14, 2018)


 

9. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (February 13, 2018)


 

10. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms” (February 13, 2018)


 

11. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 13, 2018)


 

12. A Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Alas, some famous philosophers fell ignobly short of living their ideals!” (February 12, 2018)


 

13. Use and Misuse of English (1st of a 3-part series): “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words – I”  (February 12, 2018)




14. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A wily but translucent punctuation play to insult a president” (February 12, 2018)
 



15. Readings in Language: “Self-taught computer-savvy scholar uncovers ‘inspiration’ for 11 Shakespeare plays” (February 10, 2018)




16. A Refresher in English Grammar Basics: “Phrasal verbs are phrases with a figurative meaning” (February 10, 2018)


 

17. A Getting to Know English Retrospective: “An awful and otherworldly use of the possessive form” (February 10, 2018)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)

Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook




7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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