Playlist Update (Feb. 11-18, 2017) for the New Forum Gateway on Facebook
February 18, 2017
To My Facebook Friends and Fans,
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST FOR FEBRUARY 11-18, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
1.
“Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (Feb. 18)
2.
“Back to basics in English sentence construction” (Feb. 18)
3.
"The importance of grammar-perfect English - VI" (Feb. 17)
(The need for “that”)
4.
“Wrong or willfully violated mall parking signs in English” (Feb. 16)
5.
“60 really amusing job descriptions” (Feb. 16)
6.
“We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns”(Feb. 15)
7.
“Using big data, research validates the Pollyanna Hypothesis” (Feb. 15)
8.
“The importance of grammar-perfect English – V” (Feb. 14)
(Proper measures for physical phenomena)
9.
“Waltzing on the Web” (Feb. 14)
10.
Encore: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Feb. 14)
11.
“Romantic Rhymes with Unromantic Twists” (Feb. 13)
12.
“The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms” (Feb. 13)
13.
“Some pre-Valentine Day contrarian riffs” (Feb. 13)
14.
“No earthly reason why the clergy should be bad in English grammar” (Feb. 13)
12.
“Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (Feb. 12)
15.
“A fond lookback to college life miscellany” (Feb. 11)
16.
“A wily but translucent punctuation play to insult a President” (Feb. 11)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS:1.
Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014
2.
“Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
3.
“Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
4.
“Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
5.
“Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
6.
“Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
Click this link to earlier Playdate features!
