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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 28 - MAY 4, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – I” (May 3, 2018)
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2. Back to the Grammar Basics Retrospective: “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (May 4, 2018)
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3. Language Humor at its Finest: “Pun lover attempts to prove it’s possible to elevate puns into an art form” (May 4, 2018)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Which construction is correct: ‘My brother and I…’ or ‘I and my brother…’?” (May 3, 2018)
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5. Use and Misuse: “Why an object needn’t follow the verb ‘told’” (May 1, 2018)
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6. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Frenzied arrival reporting, this time for the ASEAN Summit dignitaries” (April 29, 2018)
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7. The Forum Lounge: “A Filipino-Australian woman on helping people write and speak good English” (April 29, 2018)
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8. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A crash course in politically correct English” (April 29, 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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