Playlist Update (April 1-8, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on FacebookTo My Facebook Friends and Fans,
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST FOR APRIL 1-8, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “The Middle Ages weren’t just a time of long religious delirium and hysteria” (April 8 )
2. “Things I’d Hate To See In Job Applications” (April 7)
3. “Which should we master first, conjunctions or prepositions?” (April 6)
4. A Meditation You May Want to Share Right Now: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (April 6)
5. "Dealing with Various Levels of Intransitivity" (April 5)
6. “Human genome research casts doubt on Adam and Eve story” (April 4)
7. “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 4)
8. “To all ye women who think ye are equal to men!” (April 4)
9. “The proper use of ‘can’ and ‘may’ as a mark of civility” (April 3)
10. “Why Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (Parts 1, 2, 3) (April 2)
11. “Chief executives now a threatened species in the age of social media” (April 2)
12. “Dealing decisively with the ‘who’ vs. ‘whom’ conundrum” (April 1)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS:1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
8. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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