« on: April 20, 2018, 08:24:27 PM »
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 14 - 20, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “The perfect tenses as a major grammar challenge – 1” (April 19, 2018)
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2. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 19, 2018)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 20, 2018)
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4. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (April 18, 2018)
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5. A Question Foremost in Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (April 17, 2018)
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6. English Use and Misuse: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (April 17, 2018)
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7. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2018)
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8. Advocacy Against Bad Textbooks: “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino” (April 15, 2018)
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9. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What’s deemed as proper English really only a matter of fashion” (April 15, 2018)
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10. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2018)
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11. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (April 14, 2018)
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12. English Use and Misuse: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable!’” (April 13, 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)
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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)
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4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
(Posted July 11, 2016)
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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor”
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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