PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 14 - 20, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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 19 (August 19, 2021)
2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2” (August 16, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2021)
4. Advice and Dissent: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 15, 2021)
5. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific news” (August 16, 2021)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dad, do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 17, 2021)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2021)
8. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 15, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Writing to get that job”--even in the pandemic era (August 14, 2021)
10. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 14, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (August 14, 2021)
12. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 13, 2021)
13. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 13, 2021)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Indignities in American minor” (August 13, 2021)
15. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in jeopardy” in the Forum now! (August 19, 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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