Playlist Update (September 15 - 21, 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 (SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (September 20, 2018)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Dangers of Overstatement” (September 21, 2018)


 

3. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: Teaching our children to think logically” (September 21, 2018)




4. You Asked Me This Question: “Words don’t come easy” (September 20, 2018)
 

  

5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A recurrent glaring grammar error on cable news TV” (September 19, 2018)


 

6. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (September 19, 2018)


 

7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (September 18, 2018)


 

8. Just In Case You Didn’t Know Yet: “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know” (September 18, 2018)


 

9. Getting To Know English: “When a word can either be a noun or an adjective” (September 18, 2018)


 

10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The heavy price of misplacing one’s trust and confidence” (September 18, 2018)


 

11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations” (September 17, 2018)


 

12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So Stuttgart is the world’s least stressful city, and Manila the 10th most stressful?” (September 16, 2018)


 

13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is the usage of the adverb ‘overly’ anomalous English?” (September 15, 2018)


 

14. Basic But Rather Tough Grammar Puzzler: “The difference between nouns preceded by the article ‘a’ and by ‘the’” (September 15, 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)



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



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




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