Playlist Update (August 24 - 30, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 24 - 30, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: “Do we say ‘in the street’ or ‘on the street’?” (August 28, 2019)




2. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The pressing need to curb religious rhetoric that breeds fanaticism” (August 29, 2019)




3. Getting to Know English Better: “Inverted sentences as transitional devices” (August 29, 2019)


 

4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “For good or ill, the Filipino word ‘hulidap’ enters global lexicon” (August 29, 2019)




5. How English and Science Savvy are You? “44 actual misphrased statements from student science exams” (August 28, 2019)




6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “‘The face that launched a thousand ships’ was likely a what?” (August 28, 2019)




7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (August 27, 2019)




8. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the correct modifiers for our verbs” (August 27, 2019)


 

9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 puns on the job” (August 27, 2019)




10. A Silent Fire Retrospective: “Giving justice to J.R.R. Tolkien” (August 27, 2019)




11. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Science works only because it feeds on curiosity and breaks its own rules” (August 26, 2019)




12. A Post-Birthday Retrospective: “Redux: A Special 2016 Year-End Folio of My Essays” (August 26, 2019)


 

13. Language Humor at its Finest: “Not for the tongue-tied: Tagalog tongue-twisters just this once” (August 25, 2019)


 

14. Just a Little Retrospective About This Day: “No need to hold 'celebrant' in a straightjacket” (August 24, 2019)




15. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 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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