Playlist Update (February 2 - 8, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 2 - 8, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2019)


 

2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2019)


 

3. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 2019)


 

4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need for genuine leisure instead of a mad, unending pursuit of wealth” (February 7, 2019)


 

5. Language Humor at Its Finest Retrospective: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2019)


 

6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Teaching our children to think logically” (February 5, 2019)


 

7. When What’s Meant Isn’t Exactly What’s Said: “The nature of true idioms” (February 5, 2019)




7. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2019)


 

8. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (February 5, 2019)


 

9. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Learning the English idioms” (February 3, 2019)


 

10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A masterful guide to the craft of modern nonfiction writing” (February 3, 2019)


  

11. The Forum Lounge: “Legal articles on the Family Code and other topics written in Plain English” (February 2, 2019)


 

12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 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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