PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 22 - 28, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new 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 Know English Better: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 2” (February 27, 2020)
2. Refresher on an Important English Grammar Basic: “The perils of using double negative constructions” (February 28, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Where’s the verb in this sentence?” (February 28, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Let’s get acclimatized to the country’s weather terminology” (February 28, 2020)
5. Use and Misuse: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “When saying it once isn’t enough” (February 26, 2020)
7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries” (February 27, 2020)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “It’s not good to strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (February 27, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A fascinating question on the modals of conjecture” (February 26, 2020)
10. Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Can bad sex in literary fiction be just as enlightening as good ones?” (February 26, 2020)
11. Readings in Language: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2020)
12. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking church dogma” (February 25, 2020)
13. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: “Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2020)
14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “32 words of wisdom with a humorous touch” (February 24, 2020)
15. Getting To Know English Better: “Logic and language” (February 24, 2020)
16. Advice and Dissent—Urgent Retrospective: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (February 24, 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”[/size] (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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