Playlist Update (June 30 - July 6, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 30 - JULY 6, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(7 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “Can the indefinite articles be used with uncountable nouns?” (July 5, 2018)


 

2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Looking deeply into religious belief as a problem in international affairs” (July 5, 2018)





3. Language Humor at its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (July 6, 2018)




4. Getting to Know English Better: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 3, 2018)




5. A Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” and the full text of his “In Defense of Women” (July 3, 2018)



6. An Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting obsessed over punctuation might just prove worth your effort” (July 1, 2018)



7. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (July 30, 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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