Playlist Update (December 15 - 21, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 14 - 21, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):

1. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How to Say ‘Merry Christmas’ in 75 of the World's Languages” (December 22, 2018)


 

2. The Forum Lounge: “Celebrating the Holiday Season with an element of surprise” (December 22, 2018)


  

3. Going Deeper Into English: “Letter from Germany on how synonyms and pleonasms differ” (December 20, 2018)


 

4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Humanity is evolutionarily hard-wired for God, psychologist argues” (December 21, 2018)


 

5. The Forum Lounge: “Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray: Paragon of beauty, brain, eloquence,” Essay by Maximo Tumbali (December 19, 2018)


 

6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2018)



7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Andy Rooney’s “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (December 16, 2018)


 

8. Advice and Dissent: “U.S.A.: Under its roof sleep the enemies,” Opinion by Maximo Tumbali (December 15, 2018)




9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (May 4, 2013)


 

10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The story of the ascent of humanity is told in 17 mathematical equations” (May 12, 2012)


 

11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A trip down memory lane” (September 28, 2009)




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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



8. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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