Playlist Update (May 11 - 17, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 11 - 17, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 16, 2019)



2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “23 Thoughts of a normal 50-something woman beyond reproach” (May 16, 2019)


 

3. Back to the Basics in Combining Sentences: “‘Which,’ ‘that,’ ‘who’ and other grammar pitfalls” (May 17, 2019)


 

4. Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 15, 2019)


 

5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “So what do we do now with all those tired, time-worn clichés?” (May 15, 2019)


 

6. Getting To Know English Better: “Beware that mass nouns are distinct from collective nouns” (May 15, 2019)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When a lover takes liberties with his English” (May 13, 2019)


 

8. The Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2019)




9. Advice and Dissent: “A compelling alternative to Shakespeare's true identity was that he was a woman” (May 12, 2019)





10. Retrospective for Mother’s Day: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (May 12, 2019)


 

11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of awkward beginnings” (May 11, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



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



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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