Playlist Update (Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 6, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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. Getting to Know English Better: “How the two types of English determiners work” (December 5, 2019)




2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 6, 2019)


 

3. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How to Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the World’s Languages” (December 6, 2019)


 

4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Bracing nuggets of wisdom about the writing process” (December 5, 2019)


 

5. Lookback to a Provocative Parody: “The harm that PowerPoint does to the way we think and speak” (December 6, 2019)


 

6. A Media Language Critique: “A crash course in politically correct English” (December 5, 2019)


 

7. A Holiday Season Reading: “Just a little bit of history about ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’” (December 4, 2019)




8. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper use of the tenses in conditional sentences” (December 4, 2019)




9. You Asked Me This Question: “A gerund acting as subject is always considered singular” (December 3, 2019)


 

10. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Highly politicized physics and faulty news reporting” (December 3, 2019)


  

11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 Fabulous Advice from Famous People” (December 3, 2019)


 

12. You Asked Me This Question: “The uses of the ‘is to + verb’/‘are to + verb’ structure” (December 2, 2019)


 


13. Time Out from English Grammar: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (December 2, 2019)


 

14. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “No, not everything pertaining to the President is ‘presidential’” (December 2, 2019)


 

15. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Baffling legal terminology in the impeachment process” (December 1, 2019)


 

16. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A breathtaking cardinal sin in media’s English grammar” (December 1, 2019)


 

17. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2019)


 

18. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 30, 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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