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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 1, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Let’s get acclimatized to the country’s weather terminology” (February 28, 2019)
2. Refresher on an Important English Grammar Basic: “The perils of using double negative constructions” (February 28, 2019)
3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2019)
4. You Asked Me This Question: Gerry T. Galacio's “Where’s the verb on that sentence?” (February 28, 2019)
Grammar Joust: “Where’s the verb in that sentence?” (February 28, 2019)
5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries” (February 27, 2019)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2019)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “It’s not good to strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (February 26, 2019)
8. A Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Can bad sex in literary fiction be just as enlightening as good ones?” (February 26, 2019)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the modals of conjecture” (February 26, 2019)
10. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: "Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2019)
11. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking church dogma” (February 25, 2019)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2019)
13. Advice and Dissent—Urgent, Very Timely Retrospective: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (February 24, 2019)
14. Getting To Know English Better: “Logic and language” (February 24, 2019)
15. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “32 Words of Wisdom with a Humorous Touch” (February 24, 2019)
16. You Asked Me This Question: “An encounter with an elliptical sentence (A syntax query)” (February 23, 2019)
17. Refresher in the Basics of Expository Devices: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (February 23, 2019)
18. Retrospective: Interacting in English in Polite Society: “Good communicators hone the use of indirect questions to a fine art” (February 23, 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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