Playlist Update (January 21 - 27, 2023) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 21 - 27, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 – 4” (January 26, 2023)



2. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2023)   




3. Time Out From English Grammar: “To fight climate change more strongly, Microsoft's Bill Gates is funding development of a seaweed-feed additive that reduces cow burps and farts” (January 26, 2023)   




4. Special Forum Retrospective Folio: “12 Selected Essays by Jose Carillo” (January 22, 2023)   




5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2023)   




6. Troublesome pronoun choice that still bugs many: “Avoidance options for the pesky ‘who vs. whom’ conundrum” (January 23, 2023)   




7. Lest This Added Grammar Refresher Be Overlooked: “Departures from the rules for tag questions” (January 23, 2023)




8. Take Time To Brighten Your Day: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (January 25, 2023)




9. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “How ‘right of reply’ differs from ‘right to reply’” (January 23, 2023)




10. A Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 23, 2023)




11. Retrospective to Nina O.'s Second Letter To Me: “I will always treasure your books for a lifetime” (January 23, 2023)




12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The state of our English” (January 25, 2023)   




13. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Let’s get the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage straight” (January 23, 2023)




14. Language Humor At Its Finest: "A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (January 21, 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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