Playlist Update (November 17 - 23, 2018) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

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

PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 17 - 23, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. A Full-Dress Review of the Kinds of Verbs in English – 6: “How many auxiliary verbs are there in English?” (November 22, 2018)


 

2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (November 22, 2018)


 

3. Getting to Know English: “The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctive” (November 19, 2018)


 

4. Discussion Thread in the Forum: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (November 22, 2018)


 

5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Is there life beyond the universe that we know?” (November 23, 2018)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (November 23, 2018)


 

7. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (November 22, 2018)


 

8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Nakakagigil’ remains lost in English translation” (November 22, 2018)


 

9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2018)




10. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of ‘on the ground’ in official circles getting out of hand” (November 21, 2018)




11. A Parenting Letter Retrospective: “Dear Mama and Papa” (November 21, 2018)
 

 

12. You Asked Me This Question: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (November 17, 2018)




13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Funny typos and grammar errors that bug real church bulletins” (November 17, 2018)




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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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