Playlist Update (Dec. 23 - 29, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (Dec. 23 - 29, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(22 new postings):

1. Rizal Day Commemorative Feature: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 29, 2017)




2. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (16th in a series of 20): “8 – The misuse of prepositional phrases and prepositional idioms” (December 29, 2017)



 
3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Book on the sentence-writing craft gets mixed reviews from critics” (December 28, 2017)



 
4. An Essay on Language You Might Have Missed: “Using Grammar as a Tool for Persuasion” (December 28, 2017)


 

5. For Service Above and Beyond The Call of Duty: “Search begins for the 2018 Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Filipinos” (December 28, 2017)




6. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 3” (December 28, 2017)


 

7. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Stunning and magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (December 2, 2017)




8. A Language Humor At Its Best Retrospective: “24 puzzling imponderables” (December 27, 2017)


 

9. A Grammar Retrospective That You Won’t Want To Miss: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (December 27, 2017)


 

10. An Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Fighting back against clichés” (December 27, 2017)


 

11. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 26, 2017)


 

12. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2017)


 

13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A hilarious cornucopia of 2014 jokes about English grammar and usage” (December 26, 2017)


 

14. An Essay on Language That You Might Have Missed: “When saying it once isn’t enough” (December 26, 2017)


 

15. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar errors (15th in a series of 20): “7 – The misuse of participles and participial phrases (2)”  (December 26, 2017)


 

16. Retrospective on a Great Singer in Popular Music History: “Rock star Freddie Mercury sings ‘Barcelona’ for the ages” (December 25, 2017)


 

17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Romance math & miscellany” (December 24, 2017)


 

18. A Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is it appropriate to say ‘Advanced or Advance Merry Christmas!’?” (December 23, 2017)


 

19. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (December 23, 2017)


 

20. Retrospective on E-mail Correspondence with Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 23, 2017)


 

21. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Humanity is evolutionarily hard-wired for God, psychologist argues in book” (December 22, 2017)


 

22. An English Grammar Rule You Might Have Missed: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (December 22, 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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