Playlist Update (February 24 - March 2, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 24 - March 2, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. A Refresher in Basic English Usage: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 2, 2018)


 

2. Getting To Know English Better: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the article 'the' before geographical proper nouns” (March 1, 2018)


 

4. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries” (February 28, 2018)


 

5. A Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Phrases desirable and phrases abstruse” (February 27, 2018)




6. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the modals of conjecture” (February 27, 2018)




7. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it acceptable to strand a direct object at the end of the main clause?” February 26, 2018)


 

8. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2018)


 

9. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking Church dogma” (February 25, 2018)


 

10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “32 Words of Wisdom with a Humorous Touch” (February 24, 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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