Playlist Update (September 1 - 7, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 1 - 7, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English: “Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion” (September 6, 2018)


 

2. Communicating More Effectively in English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (September 6, 2018)


 

3. Are You Ready For A Big Self-Discovery? “Check how intelligent you really are” (September 6, 2018)


 

4. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 7, 2018)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A question on progressive tense usage” (September 6, 2018)


 

6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (September 6, 2018)
 

 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “A doubtful comparative phrase: ‘like, for example…’” (September 4, 2018)


 

8. Getting To Know English Better: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 2” (September 3, 2018)


 

9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 3, 2018)


 

10. Getting to Know English Better: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 3, 2018)


 

11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (September 2, 2018)


 

12. A Double-Edged Sword for Aspiring Writers: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?” (September 2, 2018)


 

13. Getting To Know English Better: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 1” (September 1, 2018)


 

14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (September 1, 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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