PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 5 - 11, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “Inverted sentences have a subject-verb agreement peculiarity” (December 10, 2020)
2. Special Retrospective Feature: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past – Redux 9” (December 9, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones” (December 9, 2020)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 11, 2020)
5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Thinking in numbers as effective, pleasant antidote for numerophobia” (December 11, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Deconstructing and understanding those puzzling elliptical sentences” (December 10, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2020)
8. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “40 superb paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (December 10, 2020)
9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (December 8, 2020)
10. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “78 Fabulous Advice from Famous People” (December 8, 2020)
11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2020)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can an intransitive verb be made transitive by using an adverb?” (December 7, 2020)
13. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 memorably thoughtful and mischievous quotes” (December 7, 2020)
14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 6, 2020)
15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Bracing nuggets of wisdom about the writing process” (December 6, 2020)
16. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How the two types of English determiners work” (December 5, 2020)
17. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How Do We Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the World’s Languages?” (December 6, 2020)
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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