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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 7 - 13, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(6 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English Better: “Can a modifier dangle legitimately under some circumstances?” - 1 (July 12, 2018)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (July 13, 2018)
3. An Essay by Jose Carillo Revisited: “A primer on political propaganda” (July 12, 2018)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Dictionary of performance evaluation comments” (July 13, 2018)
5. The hazards of modifier misuse revisited: “When ‘only’ goes haywire” (July 13, 2018)
6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The immense power of the right habits to transform one’s life” (July 13, 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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