Playlist Update (Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 28 - October 4, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(25 new postings):

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

1. Getting to Know English Better: “The many senses of ‘while’ elude not just a few” (October 3, 2019)




2. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (October 3, 2019)


 

3. The Grammar of Writing About Things Told To Us: “A full-dress review of reported direct or indirect speech” (October 3, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into acquiescence” (October 4, 2019)


 

5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (October 4, 2019)


 

6. Getting To Know English Better: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 2” (October 4, 2019)


 

7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (October 4, 2019)


 

8. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Humor from U.S.-based Fred Natividad: ‘Medjugorie, Here They Come!’” (October 2, 2019)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (October 2, 2019)


 

10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How ‘mine’ functions as pronoun, adjective, or determiner” (October 2, 2019)


 

11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine” (October 2, 2019)


 

12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (October 1, 2019)


 

13. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers” (October 1, 2019)


 

14. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage” (September 30, 2019)


 

15. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 Corollaries of Murphy’s Law in the World of Work” (September 30, 2019)


 

16. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct sequence of tenses for complex sentences” (September 30, 2019)


 

17. Getting to Know the English Basics Better: “The need for consistency in point of view” (September 30, 2019)


 

18. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (September 29, 2019)


 

19. Readings in Language: “Something exceptionally strange to know about William Blake” (September 29, 2019)


 

20. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (September 29, 2019)


 

21. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why are legal documents not in plain and simple English” (September 29, 2019)


 

22. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Isabel Escoda’s “Whatever Became of ‘Fine!’, ‘You’re Welcome!’, and ‘Dead’?” (September 28, 2019)


 

23. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How a ‘lawful wedded wife’ differs from a ‘lawfully wedded wife’” (September 28, 2019)


 

24. The Forum Lounge: “New worm species found to have 3—not just two—different sexes” (September 28, 2019)


 

25. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (September 28, 2019)


 

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



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



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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