Playlist Update (December 21 - 27, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 21 - 27, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: “Subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (December 26, 2019)




2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (December 27, 2019)




3. A Correspondence With A Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 26, 2019)




4. Forum Lounge: “A hilarious cornucopia of 2014 jokes about English grammar and usage” (December 26, 2019)




5. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2019)




6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The Grammar of Manners” (December 26, 2019)




7. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Our morality’s chemistry hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 26, 2019)


 

8. Views and Commentaries Retrospective: Maximo Tumbali's “Christmas in Postmodern Times” (December 26, 2019)




9. Lesson in English Orthography: “Why do we need to capitalize the first-person singular personal pronoun ‘I’?” (December 26, 2019)




10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Louie Schwartzberg’s “Hidden Miracles of the Natural World” (December 26, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor at its Finest: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (December 24, 2019)


 

12. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Romance Math & Miscellany” (December 24, 2019)




13. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is it appropriate to say ‘Advanced or Advance Merry Christmas!’?” (December 23, 2019)


 

14. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Why I consistently use the serial comma” (December 23, 2019)


 

15. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors: “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2019)





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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