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PLAYLIST UPDATE (AUGUST 18 - 24, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):
1. Education and Teaching: “Current private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (August 24, 2018)
2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 2018)
3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 24, 2018)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 22, 2018)
5. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The Quixotic Quest for Good Teachers” (August 22, 2018)
6. A Media English Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?” (August 21, 2018)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Using some idiomatic variations of the preposition ‘about’” (August 21, 2018)
8. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (August 21, 2018)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 20, 2018)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 20, 2018)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in jeopardy” (August 19, 2018)
12. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de Résistance in Hollywood Moviemaking” (August 19, 2018)
13. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 19, 2018)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2018)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 18, 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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