Playlist Update (December 14 - 20, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: “Pronouns as subject complement always take the subjective form” (December 19, 2019)


 

2. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2019)
 

 

3. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Humanity is evolutionarily hard-wired for God, psychologist argues in book” (December 21, 2019)


 

4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (December 21, 2019)
 

 

5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can sometimes be put to good use” (December 20, 2019)


 

6. Dealing with Annoying Grammar Errors: Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (December 19, 2019)


 

7. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “Letter from Germany on how synonyms and pleonasms differ” (December 20, 2019)



 

8. Just Sharing a Christmas Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour sings ‘I Didn’t See the Time Go By’ at Carnegie Hall” (December 19, 2019)
 

 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2019)


 

10. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Things My English Teacher Never Taught Me” (December 18, 2019)




11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Andy Rooney’s “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (December 16, 2019)


 

12. Special Tense Form Not For The Here and Now: “The Historical, Literary, and Eternal Present” (December 15, 2019)


 

13. A Heartwarming Video Show You Ought To Watch: “A kid’s view of the Christmas story” (December 15, 2019)


 

14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (December 15, 2019)


 

15. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 1” (December 15, 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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