Playlist Update (October 26 - November 1, 2019) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 26 - November 1, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(24 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use ‘request’ or ‘request for’?” (October 31, 2019)


 

2. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (October 31, 2019)


 

3. Time Out From English Grammar: “Antonio Calipjo Go’s ‘Pebble in My Shoe, Stone in My Heart’” (October 31, 2019)


 

4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about contemporary scientific news” (November 1, 2019)


 

5. Two Poetry Readings for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” (October 31, 2019)


 

6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “8 readings for Halloween and All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day” (October 30, 2019)


 

7. The Lounge Retrospective: “Overcome with Civil War deaths, Americans turned to spirit photography” (October 30, 2019)


 

8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Epigraphs: Simply labels or motive engines for literary narratives?” (October 30, 2019)


 

9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?” (October 30, 2019)


 

10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Unique, very creative Halloween greeting” (October 30, 2019)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (October 29, 2019)


 

12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (October 29, 2019)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When educators befuddle” (October 29, 2019)


 

14. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (October 29, 2019)


 

15. Getting To Know English Better: “The perils of using back-formations” (October 29, 2019)




16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?” (October 28, 2019)


 

17. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ finally enters the French lexicon” (October 28, 2019)


 

18. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (October 28, 2019)


 

19. Essays by Joe Carillo: “When even the passive voice is’t enough” (October 27, 2019)


 

20. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (October 27, 2019)


 

21. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The psychometric test that promised to be an ‘X-ray to the soul’” (October 27, 2019)


 

22. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour sings a classic!” (October 26, 2019)


 

23. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2019)


 

24. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Close encounters with enigmatic English syntax” (October 25, 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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