Playlist Update (February 9 - 15, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(20 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Does ‘nor’ always need ‘neither’ to work properly?” (February 14, 2019)


 

2. Language Humor at its Finest: “25 English Language Oddities” (February 14, 2019)


 

3. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2019)


 
4. Retrospective Essay for Valentine’s Day: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 14, 2019)




5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 15, 2019)


 

6. Encore Just For This Day of the Hearts! “A dozen romantic rhymes with unromantic twists” (February 14, 2019)


 

7. Setting The Mood For Love: “The genesis and evolution of love songs as transcendent art form” (February 13, 2019)


 

8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms” (February 13, 2019)


 

9. The Need For Language Mastery To Promote the Faith: “No earthly reason why the clergy should be bad in English grammar” (February 13, 2019)


 

10. Getting To Know English: Gerry T. Galacio’s “Why my attitude about conciseness by deleting ‘that’ and ‘which’ has changed” (February 13, 2019)


 

11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (February 13, 2019)


 

12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words” (February 12, 2019)




13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 12, 2019)


 

14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (February 11, 2019)


 

15. Going Way, Way Down Memory Lane: “Manila at the turn of the 20th century” (February 11, 2019)


 

16. Views and Commentaries: Maximo Tumbali's “Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love” (February 10, 2019)




17. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Awful, otherworldly use of the possessive form” (February 10, 2019)


 

18. Refresher in English Grammar Basics: “Phrasal verbs are phrases with a figurative meaning” (February 10, 2019)


 

19. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Self-taught computer-savvy scholar uncovers ‘inspiration’ for 11 Shakespeare plays” (February 10, 2019)


 

20. Refresher in Punctuating Amplifying Elements: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (February 10, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):

1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



2. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



3. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

4. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



5. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



7. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



9. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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