Playlist Update (September 22 - 28, 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 22 - 28, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 1” (September 27, 2018)


 

2. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (September 28, 2018)


 

3. The Forum Lounge: “Synopsis in English of the Korean historical drama ‘Mr. Sunshine’” by Gerry T. Galacio (September 27, 2018)


 

4. Language Humor at its Finest: “31 nuggets of zany wisdom from the humor bin” (September 27, 2018)


 

5. Going Deeper Into English: “Learning the English idioms” (September 27, 2018)
 

 

6. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (September 27, 2018)


 

7. Reflections On How We Reckon With Time: “The days of our lives” (September 24, 2018)


 

8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (September 23, 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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