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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 16 - 22, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(6 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense” (June 21, 2018)
2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “29 more great palindromes for the road” (June 22, 2018)
3. Gracefully Knocking Off Repetitive Phrases: “The virtue of elliptical constructions” (June 20, 2018)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentences” (June 18, 2018)
5. A Historical Literary Curiosity You Might Have Missed: “When a novel gets published, expect some bruised egos” (June 18, 2018)
6. The Wisdom of Having a Standard Lexicon: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (June 17, 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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