PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 21 - 27, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Aspiring writer in storm-ravaged town appeals for help” (November 26, 2020)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2020)
3. Something A Little Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 26, 2020)
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two instructive cases of English misuse and suspected misuse” (November 26, 2020)
5. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “A serious grammar malfunction about a wardrobe malfunction” (November 27, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Caution in times of reasonable doubt” (November 24, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (November 23, 2020)
8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Is there life beyond the universe that we know?” (November 23, 2020)
9. No-Nonsense Review of the Noun Forms as Part of Speech: “Getting to know the noun phrase better” (November 23, 2020)
10. Reading For Aspiring Writers in English: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (November 22, 2020)
11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (November 18, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2020)
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Nakakagigil’ remains lost in English translation” (November 21, 2020)
14. Parenting Letter Retrospective: “Dear Mama and Papa” (November 21, 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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