Playlist Update (March 30 - April 5, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(23 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 2” (Motion and direction) (April 4, 2019)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (April 5, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (April 4, 2019)




4. You Asked Me This Question: “When do we use the past progressive tense?” (April 3, 2019)


 

5. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 4, 2019)


 

6. The Very Basics of Courtesy in English: “The proper use of ‘can’ and ‘may’ as a mark of civility” (April 3, 2019)


 

7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Avoiding misuse of the conjoiner ‘as well as’ in newspaper reporting” (April 3, 2019)


 

8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2019)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (Parts 1, 2, 3) (April 2, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 2, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “19 Fun Quotable Quotes to Brighten Up Your Day” (April 1, 2019)


 

12. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Dealing decisively with the ‘who’ vs. ‘whom’ conundrum” (April 1, 2019)


 

13. No April Fools’ Joke, This Cautionary Retrospective: “Chief executives now a threatened species in the age of social media” (April 1, 2019)


 

14. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (March 31, 2019)


 

15. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Is it time to kill off the grand idea of Richard Dawkins’ ‘Selfish Gene’”? (March 31, 2019)


 

16. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Oh, the sweet bird of happiness finally looks like it's in the bag!” (March 31, 2019)


 

17. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (March 31, 2019)


 

18. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to use ‘to have been’ and ‘having been’” (March 30, 2019)


 

19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (March 30, 2019)


 

20. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “With regard to ‘with regards to’ or as regards to’” (March 30, 2019)


 

21. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (March 30, 2019)


 
 
22. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The grammar of English conditional sentences” (March 30, 2019)


 

23. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “When Children Define Science in Their Own Terms” (March 30, 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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