Playlist Update (December 7 - 13, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 7 - 13, 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. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How onerous legalese imperils public welfare” (December 12, 2019)


 

2. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A little bit of history about ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’” (December 13, 2019)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “The differences in sense when ‘will’ or ‘would’ is used” (December 13, 2019)


 

4. Readings in Language: “Thinking in numbers as effective, pleasant antidote for numerophobia” (December 13, 2019)


 

5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “14 things my mother taught me” (December 12, 2019)


 

6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Deconstructing and understanding those puzzling elliptical sentences” (December 10, 2019)


 

7. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 superb paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (December 10, 2019)


 

8. Language Humor at its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 11, 2019)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones” (December 11, 2019)


 

10. Media Language Critique Retrospective: “No bad English on TV is too small not to affect us” (December 8, 2019)


 

11. Special Commemorative Feature: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past – Redux” (December 8, 2019)


 

12. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2019)


 

13. You Asked Me This Question: “Can an intransitive verb be made transitive by using an adverb?” (December 7, 2019)


 

14. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 memorably thoughtful and mischievous quotes” (December 7, 2019)




15. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How to Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the World’s Languages” (December 7, 2019)


 

16. Lookback to a Provocative Parody: “The harm that powerpoint does to the way we think and speak” (December 7, 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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