PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 3- 9, 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” - Part 15 (July 8, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying” (July 5, 2021)
3. English Grammar and Usage Problematics: “The difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘watching’ a movie” (July 7, 2021)
4. Getting To Know English Better: “Can the indefinite articles be used with uncountable nouns?” (July 5, 2021)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “‘What’ isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertion” (July 3, 2021)
6. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (June 30, 2021)
7. Getting To Know English “Six grammar questions that got the Forum’s ball rolling in 2009” (July 7, 2021)
8. Getting to Know English Better: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 3, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph transitions” (July 3, 2021)
10. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2021)
11. Language Humor at its Finest:: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2021)
12. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘18 years old and above’ or ‘18 years old and older’?” (July 1, 2021)
13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What’s the most influential academic book in the U.S. of the past 20 years?” (July 5, 2021)
14. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting finicky over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 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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