Playlist Update (November 23 - 29, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 23 - 29, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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: “Is ‘Philippines’ plural and what is its possessive form?” (November 28, 2019)


 

2. Forum Lounge Lookback: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2019)




3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The evil that ignorance and incompetence can do” (November 28, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2019)


 

5. Free Proficiency Yardstick: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 29, 2019)


 

6. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain clueless in geography” (November 28, 2019)


 

7. Readings in Language: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2019)


 

8. Time Out From English Grammar: Commentary by Maximo Tumali--“How VP Robredo’s loquacity got her axed as anti-drug czar” (November 27, 2019)


 

9. Media English Critique Retrospective: “A serious grammar malfunction about a wardrobe malfunction” (November 27, 2019)


 

10. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Lookback: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (November 27, 2019)


 

11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2019)


 

12. Something Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 26, 2019)


 

13. Language Humor at its Finest: “Dictionary of evaluation comments” (November 25, 2019)


 

14. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Louie Schwartzberg’s “Hidden Miracles of the Natural World” (November 25, 2019)


 

15. Dealing With Annoying Grammar Errors (6th in a series of 14): “Intransitive verbs forced to act as transitive ones” (November 25, 2019)


 

16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Caution in times of reasonable doubt” (November 25, 2019)


 

17. Full-Scale Review of the Noun as Part of Speech: “Getting to know the noun phrase better” (November 23, 2019)


 

18. Time Out From English Grammar: “Is there life beyond the universe that we know?” (November 23, 2019)


 

19. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (November 23, 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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