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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 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. You Asked Me This Question: “The ‘who’/‘whom’ grammar conundrum revisited” (November 21, 2019)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “An English-language conundrum (or ‘In how many ways can you skin a cat?’)” (November 21, 2019)
3. Forum Lounge: “‘Nakakagigil’ remains lost in English translation” (November 22, 2019)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2019)
5. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (November 22, 2019)
6. Not Really A Joke But Serious Business: “Free, honest-to-goodness self-administered intelligence test” (November 20, 2019)
7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Forum discussion on “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (November 22, 2019)
8. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “Poem’s antedating by 230 years puts its noble thoughts in jeopardy” (November 21, 2019)
9. Parenting Letter Retrospective: “Dear Mama and Papa” (November 21, 2019)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (November 21, 2019)
11. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “What’s deemed as proper English really only a matter of fashion” (November 19, 2019)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (November 19, 2019)
13. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles got out of hand” (November 19, 2019)
14. Readings in Language: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (November 18, 2019)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Your handling of numbers and time reflects the clarity of your thinking” (November 18, 2019)
16. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (November 18, 2019)
17. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The mangling of idiomatic expressions” (November 17, 2019)
18. You Asked Me This Question: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (November 17, 2019)
19. Essays by Jose Carillo: “What to do when a simple indicative sentence just can’t make your point” (November 16, 2019)
20. For More Readable, More Engaging English: “Harnessing parallelism for structural balance” (November 16, 2019)
21. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Rediscovering John Galsworthy” (November 16, 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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