Playlist Update (October 20 - 26, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (OCTOBER 20 - 26, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English – II: “Transitive verbs are either dynamic or stative” (October 25, 2018)


 

2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Homer’s classic ‘Iliad’ rendered in four English language registers” (October 25, 2018)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (October 25, 2018)


 

4. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part I: "Parenthesis by comma” (October 21, 2018)
  

    
  Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part II: The appositive phrase” (October 24, 2018)


    
   Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part III: “Parenthesis by dashes and parenthesis by parentheses” (October 25, 2018)

   
 
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why are legal papers and contracts hard to understand?” (October , 2018)


 

6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2018)


 

7. Use and Misuse: “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (October 23, 2018)


 

8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Doing battle with the recurrent misuse of the conjunction ‘as’” (October 23, 2018)


 

9. “My Thoughts Exactly” Featured Essay: Antonio Calipjo Go's “The Two Hemispheres of Me” (October 23, 2018)


 

10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “If what’s said doesn’t make sense, go ask your doctor--or maybe not at all!” (October 21, 2018)


 

11. Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions - 4: “Getting to know the prepositional idioms” (October 29, 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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