Playlist Update (May 18 - 24, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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

PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 18 - 24, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. Getting to Know English: “How elliptical sentences differ from elliptical clauses” (May 23, 2019)


 

2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 24, 2019)


 

4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Loving, at times kooky homage to a master English prose stylist” (May 23, 2019)
 

 

5. The Great Shift to Pragmatic Language: “Transitioning from academic to business English” (May 22, 2019)


 

6. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (May 23, 2019)


 

7. Media English Watch: “Does ‘journalese’ afflict Philippine journalism?” (May 21, 2019)


 

8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (May 21, 2019)


 

9. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 21, 2019)


 

10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 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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