PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 3 - 9, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings, 10 classic 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: “Is there such a thing as a complex-complex sentence?” (October 8, 2020)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference" (October 11, 2020)
3. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “The need to know the English idioms” (October 11, 2020)
4. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 Spot-on Political Quips for Our Times” (October 12, 2020)
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (October 10, 2020)
6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘that’ and ‘than that of’” (October 10, 2020)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book” (October 10, 2020)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Some very close and awful encounters with the language barrier” (October 10, 2020)
9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a hard-headed businessman” (October 7, 2020)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (October 6, 2020)
11. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 6, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Elif Shafak’s “In a divided and angry world, novelists can no longer afford to be apolitical” (October 6, 2020)
13. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Experienced Filipino teachers hired to teach in U.S. high schools” (October 6, 2020)
14. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (October 6, 2020)
15. You Asked Me This Question: “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into acquiescence” (October 4, 2020)
16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (October 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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