Playlist Update (June 29 - July 5, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 29 - July 5, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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: “Bedlam when a verb is very late in coming” (July 4, 2019)




2. A Recommended Self-Improvement Regimen: “How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying” (July 4, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2019)


 

4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Looking deeply into religious belief as a problem in international affairs” (July 4, 2019)


 

5. Getting To Know English Better: “Can the indefinite articles be used with uncountable nouns?” (July 5, 2019)




6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “18 years old and above” or “18 years old and older”? (July 3, 2019)


 

7. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 3, 2019)


 

8. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2019)


 

9. Getting to Know the Tenses Better: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (July 1, 2019)


 

10. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting obsessed over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 2019)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why is it easier for learners to speak English than write it?” (June 30, 2019)


 

12. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (June 30, 2019)


 

13. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (June 29, 2019)


 

14. Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2019)


 

15. Language Humor At Its Finest: “13 + 1 Key Differences Between Men and Women” (June 29, 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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