Playlist Update (December 8 - 14, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 8 - 14, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):

1. Their Thoughts Exactly: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past – Redux 8” (December 9, 2018)


 

2. Seasonal Language Humor at its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 11, 2018)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2018)



  
4. You Asked Me This Question: “What to do when the subject is a very long noun form” (December 13, 2018)


 

5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “14 things my mother taught me” (December 12, 2018)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The differences in sense when ‘will’ or ‘would’ is used" (December 12, 2018)


 

7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “20 + 4 Fun Puns and Groaners” (December 11, 2018)


 

8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Thinking in numbers as effective, pleasant antidote for numerophobia” (December 11, 2018)


 

9. Advice and Dissent Revisited: “An eye for clarity, simplicity, brevity, and humanity” (December 10, 2018)


 

10. Opinion by Maximo Tumbali, Forum Contributor: “A travesty of justice!” (December 8, 2018)


 
     Opinion by Maximo Tumbali: “Dearth of judges with good moral sense” (December 10, 2018)


11. A Grammar Reading You Might Have Missed: “The virtue of elliptical constructions” (December 10, 2018)


 

12. Intriguing Grammar Question: “An English-language conundrum” (December 10, 2018)


 

13. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 superb paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (December 10, 2018)


 

14. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones” (December 9, 2018)


 

15. Advice and Dissent: “Incredulous over an ever-loving omnipotent creator consumed by an endless rage” (December 8, 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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