Playlist Update (January 12 - 18, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 12 - 18, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 17, 2019)


 

2. Retrospective on a Mistaken Notion About Idioms: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 18, 2019)


 

3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A serious bad grammar syndrome” (January 18, 2019)
 

 

4. Provocative Retrospective Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2019)
 

 

5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2019)


 

6. Retrospective To An Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2019)


 

7. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2019)


 

8. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2019)


 

9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ” (January 14, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What the expression ‘if anything’ means” (January 14, 2019)


 

11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2019)




12. Views and Commentaries: “The Year of the Pigs” (January 12, 2019)


 

13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (January 12, 2019)


 

14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The pitfalls of not providing sentences with a clear subject” (January 12, 2019)


 

15. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Is yelling ‘greetings!’ or ‘cheers!’ at the start of a letter acceptable?” (January 12, 2019)


 

16. Language Humor At Its Finest: “31 flaky nuggets of wisdom from a jar” (January 12, 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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