Playlist Update (May 4 - 10, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 4 - 10, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: "Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain, British neuroscientist asserts" (May 10, 2019)


 

2. Rediscovering the Linking Verbs: “Verbs to tie up loose ends” (May 10, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor at its Finest: “21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal affairs” (May 9, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (May 9, 2019)




5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “‘Just plug it!’ or ‘Just plug it in!’”? (May 9, 2019)


 

6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The reign of the dreadful clichés” (May 8, 2019)


 

7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: YouTube Video: “Verbatim: What is a photocopier?” (May 8, 2019)


 

8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “53 memorable quotes from famous celebrities over the years” (May 8, 2019)


 

9. English Use and Misuse Revisited: “Gobbledygook na Ingles at Tagalog” (“Inday ng Buhay Natin”) (May 7, 2019)


 

10. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Dealing wisely with negatives” (May 5, 2019)


 

11. You Asked Me This Question: “The choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (May 5, 2019)


 

12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Things nasty you might do if you’ve already mastered your English” (May 5, 2019)


 

13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A cautionary tale of a man’s deep aversion to change” (May 4, 2019)


 

14. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (May 4, 2019)


 

15. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – I” (May 4, 2019)


 

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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