Playlist Update (December 1 - 7, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 1 - 7, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 new postings):

1. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 memorably thoughtful and mischievous quotes” (December 7, 2018)


 

2. Getting to Know English: “Which,” “that,” and other grammar pitfalls” (December 6, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “Can an intransitive verb be made transitive by using an adverb?” (December 7, 2018)


 

4. Lookback to a Provocative Parody: “The harm that Powerpoint does to the way we think and speak” (December 6, 2018)


 

5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 6, 2018)


 

6. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A Kid's View of the Christmas Story” -- YouTube Video (December 5, 2018)


  

7. A Media Language Critique Retrospective: “A crash course in politically correct English” (December 5, 2018)


 

8. Message from the Forum Lounge: “Once again, how to say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the world's languages” (December 5, 2018)


 

9. Readings in Language Retrospective: "Bracing nuggets of wisdom about the writing process" (December 5, 2018)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper use of the tenses in conditional sentences” (December 4, 2018)


 

11. A Christmas Tale To Read (Or Sing) Once Again: “Just a little bit of history about ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’” (December 4, 2018)


 

12. A Media English Retrospective: “Highly politicized physics and faulty news reporting” (December 3, 2018)


 

13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 Fabulous Advice from Famous People” (December 3, 2018)


 

14. The Forum Lounge: “Tempest in cyberspace over the UAAP81 Finals ‘wear BLACK!’ agitprop” (December 2, 2018)




15. Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (December 2, 2018)


 

16. Retrospective to a 2010 Media Language Critique: “No, not everything pertaining to the President is ‘presidential’” (December 2, 2018)


 

17. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The uses of the ‘is to + verb’/‘are to + verb’ structure” (December 2, 2018)


 

18. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A breathtaking cardinal sin in media’s English grammar” (December 1, 2018)


 

19. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Baffling legal terminology in the impeachment process” (December 1, 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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