Playlist Update (August 31 - Sept. 6, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 31 - September 6, 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. Use and Misuse: “Pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (September 5, 2019)




2. Communicating More Effectively in English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (September 5, 2019)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A question on progressive tense usage about current events” (September 5, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: A doubtful comparative phrase: ‘like, for example…’” (September 4, 2019)



5. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “25 ludicrously funny analogies” (September 5, 2019)


 

6. Getting To Know English: “Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion” (September 5, 2019)


 
 
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (September 4, 2019)


 

8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is the ‘zero-complement verb’ a bare infinitive or an intransitive verb?” (September 4, 2019)


 

9. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “A devilishly equivocal English grammar question” (September 3, 2019)




10. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 2” (September 3, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (September 2, 2019)




12. Getting to Know English Better: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 2, 2019)




13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 2, 2019)




14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Agnostic philosopher bashes Richard Dawkins’ brand of atheism” (September 1, 2019)



 
15. Getting To Know English Better: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 1” (September 1, 2019)


 

16. Double-Edged Sword for Aspiring Writers: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?” (September 1, 2019)




17. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The harm that PowerPoint does to the way we think and speak” (August 31, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6630.0


 

18. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (August 31, 2019)




19. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 word” (August 30, 2019)


 

20. A Silent Fire Retrospective: “Split on infinitives” (August 30, 2019)




21. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 4” (August 30, 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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