Playlist Update (Dec. 16 - 22, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (Dec. 16 - 22, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(20 new postings):

1. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (14th in a series of 20): “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2017)




2. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2017)




3. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (December 21, 2017)




4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A cockeyed but penetrating definition of globalization” (December 20, 2017)


 

5. A Twin Retrospective on Two Science-Fiction Masters: “Ray Bradbury’s stories: A gift of language and the imagination” and “H.G. Wells biography: ‘Another kind of life’” (December 20, 2017)


 

6. An Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Of Fiascoes and Sycophants” (December 20, 2017)


 

7. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can sometimes be put to good use” (December 20, 2017)


 

8. Retrospective on My Initiation to the Personal Computer: “Waltzing on the Web” (December 19, 2017)


 

9. An English Grammar Test Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (December 19, 2017)


  

10. A Christmas Feature Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour—singer, public activist, and diplomat—sings a classic” (December 19, 2017)




11. Dealing with annoying English grammar errors (13th in a series of 20): “6 – Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (3)” (December 19, 2017)




12. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Are personal essayists for real or do they assume different personas?” (December 18, 2017)




13. A Reading You Might Need About the Tenses: “The Historical, Literary, and Eternal Present” (December 18, 2017)


 

14. Retrospective: An Essay on Writing “Things My English Teacher Never Taught Me” (December 18, 2017)


 

15. Countdown for Your Pick Of Your Holiday Greetings: “8 More Days to Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in Any of 75 + 2 Languages” (December 18, 2017)


 

16. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (December 71, 2017)




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


 

18. Students’ Sounding Board: “Two baffling questions about modifying phrases” (December 17, 2017)


 

19. A Retrospective on Life Itself: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.” (December 10, 2017)


 

20. A Forum Christmas Special: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past - Redux 7” (December 16, 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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