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

[Joe Carillo]

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

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar - 1” (March 14, 2019)



2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 14, 2019)


 

3. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2019)


 

4. Getting To Know English Better: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2019)


 

5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 15, 2019)


 

6. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 13, 2019)


 

7. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “How to make good progress in your English by really trying” (March 13, 2019)


 

8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (March 12, 2019)


 

9. Retrospective of the Forum’s 2016 Year-End Folio: “Six personal essays and six general-interest readings” (March 11, 2019)


 

10. Unsettling Retrospective for Hero Worshippers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2019)


 

11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2019)




12. Wacky Phonetics You Might Have Missed: “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10, 2019)


 

13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “When writers decide to write, should they stick to what they know?” (March 10, 2019)


 

14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (March 9, 2019)


 

15. Intriguing Question on Possessive Adjectives: “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9, 2019)


 

16. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2019)


 

17. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2019)


 

18. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 9, 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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