Playlist Update (April 14 - 20, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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

PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 14 - 20, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “The perfect tenses as a major grammar challenge – 1” (April 19, 2018)




2. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 19, 2018)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 20, 2018)


 

4. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (April 18, 2018)


 

5. A Question Foremost in Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (April 17, 2018)


 

6. English Use and Misuse: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (April 17, 2018)


 

7. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2018)


 

8. Advocacy Against Bad Textbooks: “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino” (April 15, 2018)


 

9. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What’s deemed as proper English really only a matter of fashion” (April 15, 2018)




10. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2018)




11. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (April 14, 2018)


 

12. English Use and Misuse: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable!’” (April 13, 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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