Playlist Update (November 1 - 8, 2019) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 1 - 8, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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: “The perplexing workings of the double possessive” (November 7, 2019)


 

2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors” (November 6, 2019)


 

3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “News headlines that went awry” (November 7, 2019)


 

4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (November 7, 2019)


 

5. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 7, 2019)


 

6. Time Out From English Grammar: “The ever-changing standards for beauty over the centuries” (November 6, 2019)


 

7. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Shell-shocked by English grammar bombs in entertainment reporting” (November 6, 2019)


 

8. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper tense to use when talking now about the past” (November 5, 2019)


 

9. You Asked Me This Question: “A close encounter with wrong adverb usage” (November 5, 2019)


 

10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “English grammar and usage: Defense and assault”
(November 5, 2019)


 

11. Readings in Language: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 4, 2019)


 

12. You Asked Me This Question: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 4, 2019)


 

13. Forum Advocacies Retrospective: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2019)


 

14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Dealing with the vexing inverted syntax of passive-voice sentences” (November 4, 2019)


 

15. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When a comma is misused to link two independent coordinate clauses” (November 3, 2019)


 

16. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A novelist in ill health races with time to finish a masterpiece” (November 3, 2019)


 

17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The roots of English” (November 3, 2019)


 

18. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A hilarious cornucopia of jokes about English grammar and usage” (November 1, 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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