Playlist Update (March 16 - 22, 2019) 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 (MARCH 16 - 22, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):

1. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 21, 2019)


 

2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Verbal fallacies nearer home” (March 21, 2019)


 

3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (March 21, 2019)


 

4. Refresher on English Grammar Basics: “The grammar of antecedents in English” (March 22, 2019)


 

5. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 22, 2019)


 

6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Attributes that make some words ‘shades of meaning’ of other words” (March 21, 2019)




7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2019)


 

8. Retrospective About a Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2019)


 

9. An Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2019)]


 

10. You Asked Me This Question: “Third conditionals don’t backshift in reported speech?” (March 19, 2019)


 

11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras” (March 18, 2019)


 

12. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 18, 2019)


 

13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Puns to alleviate the pain of occupational dismissals” (March 17, 2019)


 

14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2019)


 

15. Taking Up Again Some Interesting Grammar Basics: “Of numbers and numerals and the usage of ‘will’ and ‘would’” (March 16, 2019)




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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):

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



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



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

   

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



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



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



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



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



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




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