Playlist Update (April 6 - 12, 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 (APRIL 6 - 12, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 3” (Time and duration) (April 11, 2019)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great Titles in the Making” (April 11, 2019)


 

3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2019)




4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (April 12, 2019)


 

5. A Retrospective for Our Digital Age: "The Tree of Life" (April 11, 2019)


 

6. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2019)


 

7. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2019)


 

8. You Asked Me This Question: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2019)


 

9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 2019)




10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2019)


 

11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2019)


 

12. A Meditation You May Want to Share Right Now: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.” (April 6, 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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