Playlist Update (Dec. 31, 2022 - Jan. 6, 2023) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (Dec. 31, 2022 - Jan. 6, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings, 11 classic 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 Write English Better: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 1” (January 5, 2023)




2. Getting to Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2023)   




3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering English usage questions" (December 29, 2022)   




4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great titles in the making” (January 4, 2023)   




5. You Asked Me This Question: “Four perplexing aspects of the English perfect tenses” (January 5, 2023)   




6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 31, 2022)




7. My Media Watch Retrospective: “When media are less than careful in choosing metaphors and words” (January 6, 2023)




8. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “A critique of the Catholic clergy’s English by a former university professor” (January 4, 2023)




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Discover your personal guilelessness index by answering 250 questions” (January 6, 2023)


Why do flamingos stand on only one leg?

10. Advice and Dissent: “How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (January 6, 2023)




11. Essays by Joe Carillo: “Let’s come to grips with the proper use of ‘however’ once and for all” (January 6, 2023)




12. A Most Lucid, Delightful Book: Lucille Vaughan Payne’s “The Lively Art of Writing” (January 5, 2023)






CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines”
    (Originally posted January 8, 2021)



2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” 
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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