Playlist Update (June 9 - 15, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 9 - 15, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Is there a fail-safe rule for using ‘fewer’ or ‘less’?” (June 14, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “When children define science in their own terms” (June 14, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the usage of modals” (June 13, 2018)




4. A Retrospective for Philippine Independence Day: “My Two Love Stories” by Fred Natividad (June 12, 2018)


 

5. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Lost in Translation - 1 and 2” (June 12, 2018)


 

6. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (June 10, 2018)


 

7. A Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “We were sidewalk vendors, true, my eldest sister and I…” (June 10, 2018)


 

8. Dealing with a Disconcerting Quirk of English Grammar: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (June 9, 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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