Playlist Update (January 5 - 11, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 5 - 11, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Why not a few academics encode their insights into turgid English” (January 10, 2019)

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of the preposition ‘between’” (January 11, 2019)




3. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2019)




4. A Conversations Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (January 10, 2019)


 

5. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (January 9, 2019)


 

6. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English” (January 9, 2019)


 

7. A Grammar Variation You May Not Have Reckoned With: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the use of ‘each’” (January 9, 2019)
 

 

8. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misuse of the preposition-pronoun combination ‘of which’” (January 8, 2019)


 

9. Shoptalk Retrospective Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 8, 2019)




10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 7, 2019)


 

11. Done in By Faulty Grammar Architecture: “Confused, grammatically flawed sentence about a fallen dictator” (January 6, 2019)


 

12. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 Business Jokes and Quotes” (January 5, 2019)


 

13. Retrospective on Utterly Misleading Disaster News Story: “Shock-and-awe reportage on 2013 Bohol earthquake” (January 5, 2019)


 

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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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