Playlist Update (August 4 - 10, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (AUGUST 4 - 10, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 9, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (August 9, 2018)


 

3. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8, 2018)


 

4. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “The virtue of elliptical sentence constructions” (August 7, 2018)




5. The Forum Lounge: “Mocha’s methodology: Using the art of vulgarity,” Opinion by Maximo Tumbali (August 7, 2018)


 

6. Getting to Know How to Punctuate with Finesse: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (August 7, 2018)


  

7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 7, 2018)


 

8. Alexander the Great and the Spartans - A Revisionist Look: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6, 2018)


 

9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The English mealtime vocabulary” (August 5, 2018)


 

10. Going Deeper Into English: “When even the passive voice isn't enough” (August 5, 2018)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (August 4, 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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