Playlist Update (October 12 - 18, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 12 - 18, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Is there anything wrong with the expression ‘Thanks God’?” (October 17, 2019)


 
2. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English – Parts I, II, and II: “The parenthesis and its uses: the appositive phrase – Part I” (October 18, 2019)




3. Time Out From English Grammar: “Thomas Edison’s greatest idea ‘wasn’t something anybody could patent or touch’” (October 17, 2019)




4. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the verb types in English – 1” (October 18, 2019)


 

5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Writing to hook the reader” (October 17, 2019)


 

6. Language Humor at its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (October 18, 2019)


 

7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “In English, it’s the auxiliary or helping verb that takes the tense” (October 16, 2019)


 

8. Tough Questions in Complex Sentence Construction: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision” (October 16, 2019)


 

9. Language Humor at its Finest Encore: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (October 15, 2019)


 

10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “The Prepositions Revisited” (October 15, 2019)


 

11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A primer on political propaganda” (October 15, 2019)




12. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Five dozen amusing job descriptions” (October 14, 2019)


 

13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (October 13, 2019)


 

14. Retrospective on the English Alphabet: “Why is the stand-alone letter ‘I’ always capitalized?” (October 13, 2019)


 

15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (October 11, 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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