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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 7 - 13, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2018)




2. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 13, 2018)




3. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Take an incredible e-trip to Mars with the Exploration Rover Mission” (April 12, 2018)


 

4. Getting To Know English: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (April 12, 2018)


 

5. An Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 11, 2018)


 

6. Prescriptions for Aspiring Fiction Writers Revisited: “29 best-selling fiction writers share their secrets to success” (April 11, 2018)


 

7. Meditations for Our Digital Age - A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2018)


 

8. Getting To Know English: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2018)


 

9. Never Too Late for This Mind-Blowing Reading: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (April 9, 2018)


 

10. Getting To Know English Better: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2018)


 

11. Retrospective - Language Humor At Its Finest: “I’ll bet you didn’t know these about the English language” (April 8, 2018)


 

12. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 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)



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



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




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