PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 10 - 16, 2021) 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – 4” (April 15, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2021)
3. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2021)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (Prepositions of Motion and Location) (April 14, 2021)
5. Advocacy Against Bad Textbooks Retrospective: “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino” (April 15, 2021)
6. Secret Formula You Might Be Interested to Know: “Seeking immortality through technology and primitive diet” (April 13, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 13, 2021)
8. You Asked Me this Question Retrospective: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 11, 2021)
9. Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 11, 2021)
10. Meditations for Our Digital Age: A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2021)
11. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2021)
12. Getting to Know English: “Using the right tense for reported speech” (April 9, 2021)
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2021)
14. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (April 16, 2021)
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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