PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 12 - 18, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 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” - Part 12 (June 17, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (June 16, 2021)
3. The Forum Lounge: Gerry Galacio on “Award-winning Korean hit dramas with excellent cinematography” (June 16, 2021)
4. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “When some educators befuddle”” (June 15, 2021)
5. Language Humor at its Finest: “Discover your personal guilelessness index by answering 250 uncommonsense questions” (June 16, 2021)
6. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “Overlooked for months, ‘Connecting Flights’ finally connects with me” (June 14, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (June 14, 2021)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the usage of modals” (June 13, 2021) 
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The power of wordplay” (June 13, 2021)
10. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Flipzi on “Three attributes, other qualities a worthy Filipino presidentiable must have” (June 13, 2021)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Phenomenal rock star Freddie Mercury sings ‘Barcelona’ for the ages”” (June 13, 2021)
12. Going Deeper Into Language: “33 Golden Nuggets of Inspiration” (June 12, 2021)
13. Use and Misuse: “Once and for all, let’s not misuse ‘philippines’ as a plural noun” (June 11, 2021)
14. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Non-historian explores the heart and soul of the modern Filipino” (June 12, 2021)
15. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (June 11, 2021)
16. You Asked Me This Question: “Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund” (June 11, 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”[/b]
(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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