Playlist Update (November 9 - 15, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 9 - 15, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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: “Is your ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (November 14, 2019)




2. The Grammar of English Pronouns Revisited: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (November 14, 2019)




3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 Put-Down One-Liners About Men—By Women, of Course!” (November 13, 2019)



 

4. Getting To Know English: “A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English – 5” (November 14, 2019)


 

5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great importance of parallel construction in presenting ideas” (November 15, 2019)


 

6. The Forum Lounge: Maximo Tumbali's "Impressions of a Brief Sojourn in Japan" (November 13, 2019)




7. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “Presumptuous reporting in political journalism” (November 13, 2019)


 

8. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (3rd of a 14-part series): “Getting rid of squinting modifiers from our prose” (November 13, 2019)


 

9. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Using synonyms to enliven prose” (November 13, 2019)


 

10. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (November 12, 2019)


 

11. Use and Misuse: “A style guide for writing in English” (November 12, 2019)


 
 
12. The Forum Lounge: “Phenomenal rock star Freddie Mercury sings ‘Barcelona’ for the ages” (November 12, 2019)


 

13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A doubtful comparative-transition phrase” (November 11, 2019)


 

14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Charming take on writers as not-so-great conversationalists” (November 11, 2019)


 

15. Dealing with the most annoying grammar errors (2nd of 14 parts): “The havoc that dangling modifiers do” (November 11, 2019)


 

16. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Belief without evidence is always morally wrong” (November 10, 2019)


 

17. You Asked Me This Question: “The difference between elliptical sentences and elliptical clauses” (November 10, 2019)




18. Readings in Language: “Jonah Lehrer’s book ‘Imagine’ discredited and subsequently recalled by its publisher” (November 10, 2019)


 

19. Getting to Know English: “4 specific applications of the parallelism rules” (November 9, 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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