Playlist Update (March 23 - 29, 2019) 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 (MARCH 23 - 29, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(25 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 1”: The prepositions “in,” “at,” and “on” to indicate place and location (March 28, 2019)


 

2. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “23 stunning, magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (March 29, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “A Cavalcade of Palindromes” (March 28, 2019)


 

4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (March 29, 2019)


 

5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Information technology and social networks as catalysts for reform” (March 28, 2019)




6. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “University programs should do more teaching of language and not just literature” (March 28, 2019)


 

7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentences” (March 27, 2019)


 

8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The harm that PowerPoint does to the way we think and speak” (March 27, 2019)
  
     With a companion related serious study, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.”


 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines that Went Awry” (March 27, 2019)


 

10. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “Two memorable and truly inspiring commencement speeches” (March 27, 2019)


 

11. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Taking note of awful information gaffes and obese rhetoric” (March 27, 2019)


 

12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Giving a Touch of Authority to Our Prose” (March 26, 2019)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (March 26, 2019)


 

14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (March 26, 2019)


 

15. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 frank and not so humorous quotes about real life that should give us pause” (March 26, 2019)


 

16. On a Lark Before Taking Your Summer Vacation: “Find out how intelligent you really are” (March 26, 2019)


 

17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2019)


 

18. You Asked Me This Question: “Question about the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2019)


 

19. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2019)


 

20. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Read “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 23, 2019)


 

21. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage’” (March 24, 2019)


 

22. An English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2019)


 

23. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 24, 2019)


 

24. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 23, 2019)


 

25. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 23, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):

1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”  
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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