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PLAYLIST UPDATE (AUGUST 11 - 17, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 16, 2018)
2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2” (August 17, 2018)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (August 16, 2018)
4. Powerful Tool for Organizing and Clarifying Ideas: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 16, 2018)
5. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness Retrospective: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 15, 2018)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Writing to get that job” (August 15, 2018)
7. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 14, 2018)
8. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 14, 2018)
9. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (August 13, 2018)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Indignities in American minor” (August 13, 2018)
11. A Forum Lounge Classic Retrospective: “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (August 13, 2018)
12. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 12, 2018)
13. Getting to Write Much Better English Retrospective: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 11, 2018)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (August 10, 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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