Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(22 new postings):

1. An Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (December 15, 2017)



2. Have Lots of Fun with Some Oldies But Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (December 15, 2017)



3. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (12th in a series of 14): “Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (2)”



4. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A little bit of history about ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’” (December 14, 2017)



5. A Reading on Language Retrospective: “So what do we do now with all those tired, time-worn clichés?” (December 14, 2017)



6. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 13, 2017)



7. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 1” (December 14, 2017)



8. A You Asked Me This Question Follow-Through: “The modern English sentence averages 20 words or fewer” (December 13, 2017)



9. You Asked Me This Question: “The differences in sense when ‘will’ or ‘would’ is used” (December 13, 2017)



10. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (December 12 , 2017)



11. Especially For (But Not Just For) Boys and Girls Only: “A kid's view of the Christmas story” (December 12, 2017)



12. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “The pursuit of gossip gets fair hearing in noted writer’s book” (December 12, 2017)



13. Worldly-Wise Advice to Headstrong Kids: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (December 12, 2017)



14. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (11th in a series of 14): “7 – Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (1)” (December 11, 2017)



15. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Thinking in numbers as effective, pleasant antidote for numerophobia” (December 11, 2017)



16. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (December 11, 2017)



17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our lives” (December 10, 2017)



18. An Intriguing Grammar Question: “An English-language conundrum” (December 10, 2017)



19. A Job-Hunting Advice Retrospective: “Is ‘Hi!’ proper to begin a job application letter?” (December 10, 2017)



20. An English Grammar Retrospective: “Deconstructing and understanding those puzzling elliptical sentences” (December 10, 2017)



21. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones” (December 9, 2017)



22. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A 38-item Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2017)


 

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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)

Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook




7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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