Playlist Update (April 16-22, 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 16-22, 2017:(Latest down to earlier postings)
1. “Why we often get into trouble using the verbs ‘lie’ and ‘lay’” (April 22)
2. “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (April 21)
3. “Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions” (April 20)
4. “No need to hold ‘celebrant’ in a straightjacket” (April 19)
5. “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 19)
6. “35 zany quotes and sayings” (April 18)
7. “Aristotle the world’s first scientist and Plato an anti-scientific mythmaker?” (April 18)
8. “Hyphenating for clarity” (April 18)
9. “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (April 16)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 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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