Playlist Update (February 17 - 23, 2018) 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 (February 17 - 23, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1, 2, 3. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective (3-part series): “Dealing with questionable or downright wrong legalese - I”; “Dealing with questionable or downright wrong legalese - II”; “A devilishly equivocal English grammar question” (February 19, 21, 23, 2018)
  



4. Retrospective on Interacting in English in Polite Society: “The grammar of indirect questions” (February 23, 2018)


 

5. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in news and feature stories” (February 23, 2018)


 

6. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The grammar of manners” (February 22, 2018)


 

7. The Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 22, 2018)


 

8. Getting To Know English Better: “The subtle job that absolute phrases do” (February 21, 2017)


 

9. Retrospective on Ungrammatical Song Lyrics: “When a tremendously popular song legitimizes a grammatical atrocity” (February 20, 2018)


 

10. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but also a hard-headed businessman” (February 19, 2018)


 

11. A Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: "19 Fun Quotable Quotes to Brighten Up Your Day" (February 18, 2018)


 

12. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2018)


 

13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Societies explained satirically plain and simple” (February 17, 2018)


 

14. A Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Back to basics in English sentence construction” (February 17, 2018)


 

15. A Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A bewildering encounter with an inverted sentence” (February 17, 2018)



 

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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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