Playlist Update (February 16 - 22, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 16 - 22, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “Play it by ear whether to use a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase” (February 21, 2019)


 

2. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 21, 2019)


 

3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with questionable or downright wrong legalese” (February 21, 2019)


 

4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 funny English signboards from all over the world” (February 20, 2019)


 

5. Retrospective on Ungrammatical Song Lyrics: “When a tremendously popular song legitimizes a grammatical atrocity” (February 20, 2019)


 

6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a ruthless businessman” (February 19, 2019)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “Avoiding not only redundancy but ultra-redundancy in the same breath” (February 19, 2019)


 

8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 19, 2019)


 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 famous thoughts by astute minds” (February 19, 2019)


 

10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Back to basics in English sentence construction” (February 19, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Societies explained satirically plain and simple” (February 17, 2019)


 

12. Use and Misuse: “Strategies for avoiding repetition and abstruse stock phrases – III” (February 17, 2019)


 

13. Making Light of What We Do for a Living: “60 really amusing job descriptions” (February 16, 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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