PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 18- 24, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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. Special Start-of-2020 Retrospective Folio: “12 Selected Essays by Jose Carillo” (January 23, 2020)
2. Two Magnificent Concert Performances of “The Prayer,” Spaced 10 Years Apart (January 24, 2020)
3. Retrospective to Nina O.'s Second Letter To Me: “I will always treasure your books for a lifetime” (January 23, 2020)
4. Just So This Important Grammar Caveat Doesn’t Get Overlooked: “Departures from the rules for tag questions” (January 23, 2020)
5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “How ‘right of reply’ differs from ‘right to reply’” (January 23, 2020)
6. Grammar Refresher You Just Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2020)
7. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (January 22, 2020)
8. Language Humor at Its Finest: “Top One Hundred Funniest One-Liners” (January 21, 2020)
9. Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 21, 2020)
10. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 21, 2020)
11. Getting To Know English Better: “How infinitive phrases work” (January 18, 2020)[/size]
12. Getting to Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 18, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”[/b]
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”[/size] (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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