Playlist Update (January 4 - 10, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 4 - 10, 2020) 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: "The perfect infinitive and its uses" (January 9, 2020)


 

2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: "The league of great literary authors is hardly a mutual admiration society (January 13, 2020)


 

3. Readings in Language: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2020)


 

4. Use and Misuse: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of  ‘each’” (January 9, 2020)


 

5. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English” (January 9, 2020)


 

6. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misuse of the preposition-pronoun combination ‘of which’” (January 9, 2020)


 

7. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 7, 2020)




8. You Asked Me This Question: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 7, 2020)


 

9. Shoptalk Retrospective Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2020)




10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 6, 2020)




11. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Playing boldly with sentences” (January 5, 2020)




12. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2020)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great titles in the making” (January 4, 2020)


 

14. Postscript To My Essay on Legal Jargon: Gerry T. Galacio's “A wealth of shared insights for avoiding legalese” (January 4, 2020)


  

15. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage" (January 4, 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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