Playlist Update (March 10 - 16, 2018) 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 (March 10 - 16, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2018)


 

2. A Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper way to construct a question within a question”  (March 14, 2018)


 

4. A Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Epigraphs: Simply labels or motive engines for literary narratives?” (March 14, 2018)



   Recent related companion reading: “Got Writer's Block: Here's Your Cure” (From
   PsychologyToday.com)


5. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Precisely determining what ‘determiners’ are” (March 14, 2018)


 

6. Retrospective - Some English Verbs Can’t Go Progressive: “What does it mean to be asked ‘Are you understanding me?’” (March 14, 2018)


 

7. A Getting To Know English Retrospective: “How to make good progress in your English by really trying” (March 13, 2018)




8. A Timely Reading Worth Revisiting Today: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (March 13, 2018)


 

9. Revisiting the Forum’s 2016 Year-End Folio: “Five personal essays and six general-interest readings" (March 12, 2018)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (March 12, 2018)


 

11. A Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2018)


 

12. An Unsettling Retrospective for Hero Worshippers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2018)




13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “When writers decide to write, should they stick to what they know?” (March 10, 2018)


 

14. Retrospective on Wacky Phonetics You Might Have Missed: “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10, 2018)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)

Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook




7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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