Playlist Update (Oct. 21 - 27, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

To My Facebook Friends and Fans,

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (Oct. 21 - 27, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):

1. “Setting our thoughts in parallel” (October 26, 2017)




2. “Correcting media’s improper uses of the conjunction ‘as’” (October 27, 2017)


 

3. “The psychometric test that promised to be an ‘X-ray to the soul’” (October 27, 2017)




4. “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 25, 2017)




5. “Homer’s classic ‘Iliad’ rendered in four English language registers” (October 25, 2017)


 

6. “Clarifying the usage of the present perfect tense” (October 25, 2017)




7. “Why are legal papers and contracts hard to understand?” (October 24, 2017)




8. “Doing battle with the recurrent misuse of the conjunction 'as'” (October 23, 2017)




9. “The geisha beyond the Western and Hollywood sexual stereotype” (October 22, 2017)




10. “If what’s said doesn’t make sense, go ask your doctor” (October 21, 2017)




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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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