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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 12 - 18, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(7 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “Beware that mass nouns are distinct from collective nouns” (May 17, 2018)
2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2018)
3. An Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 18, 2018)
4. Back to the Basics in Combining Sentences: “‘Which,’ ‘that,’ ‘who’ and other grammar pitfalls” (May 18, 2018)
5. A Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 15, 2018)
6. The Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2018)
7. You Asked Me This Question: “When a lover takes liberties with his English” (May 12, 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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