Playlist Update (December 22 - 28, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 22 - 28, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (December 27, 2018)


 

2. Views and Commentaries: “The character gap between the educated and uneducated” by Maximo Tumbali, Forum member (December 28, 2018)


 

3. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “An anthology that’s a one-stop shop for everything Rizal” (December 28, 2018)


  

4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Fighting back against clichés” (December 27, 2018)




5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Our morality’s chemistry hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 28, 2018)




6. Views and Commentaries: “Christmas in Postmodern Times” by Maximo Tumbali, Forum member (December 25, 2018)


 

7. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (December 25, 2018)


 

8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “I’ll bet you didn’t know these about the English language” (December 25, 2018)


 

9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using Grammar as a Tool for Persuasion” (December 23, 2018)


 

10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “What happened during your birth year?” (December 24, 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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