Playlist Update (April 20 - 26, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 20 - 26, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Prepositions at work in prepositional idioms” (April 25, 2019)


 

2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What women and men should have and should know by the time they’re 30” (April 25, 2019)


 
3. Language Humor at its Finest: “26 funny sayings & witty puns” (April 25, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Using the form that combines prepositions with ‘a preposition + which’” (April 25, 2019)


 

5. Real-World Application of Lewis Carroll’s “Symbolic Logic”: “Two simple sentences that create semantic conundrums” (April 24, 2019)


 

6. Going Deeper Into Language: “Teaching our children to think logically” (April 23, 2019)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question: “How present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences” (April 23, 2019)


 

8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (April 23, 2019)


 

9. Readings in Language: “Tolkien: A name destined for philological studies and the creation of imaginary works” (April 22, 2019)


 

10. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (April 21, 2019)


 

11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Misuse of “lie” and “lay” punctures many writers’ command of English” (April 21, 2019)


 

12. Lenten Season Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Incredulous over an ever-loving omnipotent creator consumed by an endless rage” (April 20, 2019)


 

13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 20, 2019)


 

14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (April 20, 2019)


 


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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):

1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



2. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



3. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

4. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



5. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



7. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



9. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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