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

1. Getting To Know English Better: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2018)




2. A Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 23, 2018)


 

3. Retrospective on an Irksome Complimentary Close: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 23, 2018)


 

4. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2018)


 

5. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The correct, judicious forms of address in a bureaucracy” (March 21, 2018)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2018)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech” (March 19, 2018)




8. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Why it’s easier to speak fluently in English than to write well in English” (March 19, 2018)


 

9. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 18, 2018)


 

10. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Of numbers and numerals and the usage of ‘will’ and ‘would’” (March 17, 2018)


 

11. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (March 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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