Playlist Update (June 23 - 29, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 23 - 29, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “Using euphemism to cushion the blow of request rejections” (June 28, 2018)


 

2. A Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 27, 2018)




3. The Lounge: “President Duterte blasphemes the Catholic Faith," Opinion by Maximo Tumbali (June 28, 2018)


 

4. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 4” (June 28, 2018)
 

 

5. A Tricky Aspect of Reported Speech: “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule” (June 27, 2018)




6. You Asked Me This Question: “A case of a past perfect sentence that evokes lost opportunity” (June 26, 2018)




7. A Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (June 26, 2018)


 

8. Use and Misuse: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’ when setting a range” (June 25, 2018)




9. Going Back to English Grammar Basics: “Should a noun modified by ‘respective’ always be plural in form?” (June 24, 2018)


  

10. No Love Lost Between Them: “The league of great literary authors is hardly a mutual admiration society” (June 23, 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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