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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 2 - 8, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Exercising caution in asserting what’s good or bad English” (March 7, 2019)
2. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2019)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Postscript to and my take on the Forum Grammar Joust” (March 7, 2019)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2019)
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 6, 2019)
6. Language Humor at its Finest: “33 Plays Wyth Wurds Plus 33 Philosophies of Hypocrisy and Ambiguity” (March 6, 2019)
7. Getting To Know English Better: “A quick review in choosing and using modifiers” (March 4, 2019)
8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than a minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2019)
9. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2019)
10. Refresher in Basic English Usage: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 3, 2019)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
2. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
3. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
4. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
5. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
7. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
(Posted July 11, 2016)
8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
(Posted December 30, 2016)
9. “Indignities in American minor”
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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