Playlist Update (October 19 - 25, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 19 - 25, 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. Getting to Know English Much Better: “Don’t let ‘can,’ ‘could,’ ‘will,’ and ‘would’ baffle you anymore” (October 24, 2019)


 

2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Homer’s classic ‘Iliad’ rendered in four English language registers” (October 25, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (October 25, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question: “What’s a nice, better way to announce the opening of a new bridge?” (October 23, 2019)


 

5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “One More Time About Six One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 23, 2019)




6. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Doing battle with the recurrent misuse of the conjunction ‘as’” (October 23, 2019)


 

7. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (October 23, 2019)


 

8. Getting to Know English Better: “When the object of the verb is the doer itself” (October 22, 2019)



 
9. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The grand embodiment of all that’s fraudulent in American mass culture” (October 22, 2019)




10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “If what’s said doesn’t make sense, go ask your doctor” (October 21, 2019)


 

11. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio’s “A treasure trove of lessons in photojournalism and English proficiency” (October 21, 2019)


 

12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “So which do we use: a gerund, a full infinitive, or a bare infinitive?” (October 20, 2019)


 

13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts” (October 19, 2019)


 

14. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing” (October 19, 2019)


 

15. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “The quiet, little pleasures of reading Bienvenido Santos” (October 18, 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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