PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 10 - 16, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings, 10 classic 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: “Redundancies, imprecisions in mass media English” (October 15, 2020)
2. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “The quiet, little pleasures of reading Bienvenido Santos” (October 15, 2020)
3. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (October 15, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Writing to hook the reader” (October 15, 2020)
5. Getting To Know English Better: “Is there anything wrong with the expression ‘Thanks God’?” (October 15, 2020)
6. Time Out From English Grammar: “Thomas Edison’s greatest idea ‘wasn’t something anybody could patent or touch’” (October 15, 2020)
7. Tough Question in Complex Sentence Construction: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision” (October 15, 2020)
8. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “In English, it’s the auxiliary or helping verb that takes the tense” (October 16, 2020)
9. Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions - 2: “Specific rules for preposition usage” (October 17, 2020)
[b=http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2174.0]10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Some very close and awful encounters with the language barrier” (October 17, 2020)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Confusion over stream of consciousness narration mode" (October 9, 2020)
12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic “regards” idioms” (October 17, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”[/b]
(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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