Playlist Update (January 7 - 13, 2022) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 7 - 13, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 – 2” (January 12, 2023)




2. My English Media Watch Retrospective: “‘Coeds’ from exclusive girls’ school’ a contradiction in terms” (January 11, 2023)   




3. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2023)   




4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’” (January 11, 2023)   




5. Getting To Know English Better: “The choice between gerunds and infinitives” (January 11, 2023)   




6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The perfect infinitive and its uses” (January 8, 2023)




7. Readings in Language: Tagalog among top 5 most widely spoken non-English languages in the U.S. today (January 12, 2023)




8. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 8, 2023)




9. Shoptalk Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2023)




10. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 puns on the job” (January 7, 2023)




11. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How inversion can clarify baffling sentences” (January 7, 2023)




12. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 7, 2023)




13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 7, 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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