PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 9 - 15, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 10 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 Know English Better: “Revisiting the ‘who’/ ‘whom’ grammar conundrum” (May 14, 2020)
2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “23 Thoughts of a normal 50-something woman beyond reproach” (May 16, 2020)
3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 16, 2020)
4. Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 16, 2020)
5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “So what do we do now with all those tired, time-worn clichés?” (May 14, 2020)
6. The Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When a lover takes liberties with his English” (May 13, 2020)
8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of awkward beginnings” (May 11, 2020)
9. Retrospective for Mother’s Day: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (May 11, 2020)
10. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – II” (May 10, 2020)
11. Getting To Know English Better: “How to differentiate between ‘litotes’ and the ‘double negative’” (May 10, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain” (May 10, 2020)
13. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Verbs to tie up loose ends” (May 10, 2020)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “Random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (May 9, 2020)
15. Language Humor at its Finest: “21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal affairs” (May 9, 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” (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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