PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 27, 2020 - January 2, 2021) 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. Getting to Know English: “Disrupting the declarative sentence pattern for emphasis” (January 1, 2021)
2. A Forum Lounge Special: “A stage musical presentation to take your breath away!” (December 28, 2020)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking back to the 18 years that I’ve been writing on English usage and later moderating this Forum” (January 1, 2021)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is ‘fiscalizer’ a legitimate word in the English language?” (December 31, 2020)
5. Time Out From English Grammar “Geniuses are clear proof that people are not created equal” (December 29, 2020)
6. Special Rizal Day Retrospective: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 30, 2020)
7. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 3” (December 28, 2020)
8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “What was the world like during your birth year?” (December 28, 2020)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using causative and factitive verbs” (December 27, 2020)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 puzzling imponderables” (December 27, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Fighting back against clichés” (December 27, 2020)
12. Grammar Retrospective You Won’t Want to Miss: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (December 27, 2020)
13. An Essay on Language That You Might Have Missed: “When saying it once isn’t enough” (December 26, 2020)
14. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Our morality’s chemistry hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 26, 2020)
15. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2020)
16. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The grammar of manners” (December 26, 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)
Click this link to earlier Playdate features!Visit the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage!
