Playlist Update (April 13 - 19, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 13 - 19, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Prepositions at work in literal prepositional phrases” (April 18, 2019)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (April 18, 2019)


 

3. Media Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 19, 2019)


 

4. Getting To Know English Better: “The perfect tenses as a major grammar challenge – 1” (April 19, 2019)


 

5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (April 18, 2019)


 
 
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (April 18, 2019)


 

7. Question Foremost in Most Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (April 18, 2019)


 

8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (April 16, 2019)


 

9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2019)


 

10. Time Out From English Grammar: “A Holy Week Retrospective: Simply a Matter of Faith” (April 15, 2019)


 

11. Advocacies Retrospective: Antonio Calipjo Go's “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino” (April 15, 2019)




12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (April 14, 2019)


 

13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable!’” (April 14, 2019)


 

14. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2019)


 

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


 

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