Playlist Update (August 10 - 16, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 10 - 16, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

1. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (August 14, 2019)


 

2. Powerful Tool for Organizing and Clarifying Ideas: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 14, 2019)




3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific news” (August 14, 2019)


 

4. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 15, 2019)


 

5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (August 15, 2019)


 

6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Writing to get that job” (August 15, 2019)


 

7. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 14, 2019)


 

8. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 13, 2019)




9. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (August 13, 2019)


 

10. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 13, 2019)


 

11. A Forum Lounge Classic Retrospective: “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (August 12, 2019)


 

12. You Asked Me This Question: “Do you consider this statement a figure of speech?” (August 11, 2019)


 

13. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 11, 2019)




14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (August 11, 2019)


 

15. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 11, 2019)


 

16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (August 10, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



10. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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