Playlist Update (January 11 - 17, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 11- 17, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 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: “‘Bring’ or ‘take’ and ‘come’ or ‘go’?" (January 16, 2020)


 

2. Provocative Retrospective Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2020)



 
3. Retrospective on a Mistaken Notion About Idioms: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 17, 2020)


 

4. Retrospective To An Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2020)


 

5. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Writing: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2020)


 

6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2020)


 

7. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misplaced modifying phrase fractures Bohol earthquake news” (January 16, 2020)


 

8. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 16, 2020)


 

9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 16, 2020)




10. Normal Sequence-of-Tenses Rule Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (January 14, 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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