Playlist Update (August 3 - 9, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 3 - 9, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “How to ask a question within a question” (August 8, 2019)


 

2. Matters of Academic Performance Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (August 8, 2019)


 

3. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8, 2019)


 

4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 mind-boggling imponderables to think through” (August 9, 2019)


 

5. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1” (August 9, 2019)


 

6. Why Some are Saints, Heels, or Psychopaths: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (August 8, 2019)


 

7. Getting to Know The Tenses Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 8, 2019)


 

8. How to Punctuate with Finesse: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (August 8, 2019)


 

9. Getting To Know English Better: “The virtue of elliptical sentence constructions” (August 8, 2019)


 

10. A Revisionist Look at Alexander the Great: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 6, 2019)




12. The Forum Lounge: “Lea Salonga-Josh Groban Duet of ‘The Prayer’ in Manila” (August 6, 2019)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The English mealtime vocabulary” (August 5, 2019)


 

14. You Asked Me This Question: “Are ‘quick perusal’ and ‘careful’ redundant expressions?” (August 5, 2019)




15. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (August 4, 2019)


 

16. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineer the human brain to make ourselves smarter?” (August 3, 2019)




17. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 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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