Playlist Update (November 24 - 30, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 24 - 30, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 new postings):
 
1. Notable Works By Our Very Own: “Full-color, 176-page collector’s anthology on Jose Rizal launched” (November 27, 2018)



 
2. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the noun ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (November 30, 2018)


 

3. A Full-Dress Review of the Kinds of Verbs in English – 7: "How the English modal auxiliaries work" (November 29, 2018)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A case of a past perfect sentence that evokes lost opportunity” (November 30, 2018)


  

5. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2018)




6. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 30, 2018)


  

7. You Asked Me This Question: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2018)


 

8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2018)


 

9. Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain geography cluelessness” (November 28, 2018)


 

10. Free Yardstick For English Proficiency: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 28, 2018)


 

11. Forum Lounge Lookback: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2018)


 

12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Lookback: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (November 27, 2018)


 

13. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “A serious grammar malfunction about a wardrobe malfunction” (November 27, 2018)


 

14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Give zing to your English with tiny doses of ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’”
 


15. Use and Misuse: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2018)


 

16. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two instructive cases of English misuse and suspected misuse”


 

17. Something Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 25, 2018)


 

18. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Dictionary of evaluation comments” (November 25, 2018)




19. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “11 delectable quotes on breasts” (November 25, 2018)




20. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against journalistic nonsense” (November 24, 2018)


 

21. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Louie Schwartzberg’s 'Hidden Miracles of the Natural World'” (November 25, 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)



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



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




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