PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 24 - 30, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 10 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. Use and Misuse: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (October 29, 2020)
2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “8 readings for Halloween and All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day” (October 30, 2020)
3. Two Poetry Readings for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day: “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion” (October 30, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (October 29, 2020)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (October 30, 2020)
6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Epigraphs: Simply labels or motive engines for literary narratives?” (October 30, 2020)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When educators befuddle” (October 29, 2020)
8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (October 29, 2020)
9. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (October 28, 2020)
10. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?’” (October 26, 2020)
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ finally enters the French lexicon” (October 28, 2020)
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour sings a classic!” (October 26, 2020)
14. Time Out from English Grammar: “The many magic tricks the brain plays on our conscious mind” (October 30,2020)
15. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use ‘request’ or ‘request for’?” (October 30, 2020)
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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