PLAYLIST UPDATE (Sept. 25 - Oct. 2, 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: “Did the Mazaua First Mass historians ever talk to one another?” - 3 (September 30, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How a ‘lawful wedded wife’ differs from a ‘lawfully wedded wife’” (September 28, 2021)
3. Students’ Sounding Board: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage” (September 30, 2021)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The state of our English” (September 29, 2021)
5. “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” “A taste of vintage Mencken” (September 28, 2021)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why are legal documents are not in plain and simple English?” (September 28, 2021)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 corollaries of Murphy’s Law in the world of work” (September 30, 2021)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct sequence of tenses for complex sentences” (September 30, 2021)
9. Readings in Language: “Something exceptionally strange to know about William Blake” (September 29, 2021)
10. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Isabel Escoda’s essay “Whatever Became of ‘Fine!’, ‘You’re Welcome!’, and ‘Dead’?” (September 28, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question Rejoinder: “Can an adjective be used as a subject in a sentence?” (September 25, 2021)
12. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 1” (September 28, 2021)
13. Getting to Know the English Basics Better: “The need for consistency in point of view” (September 30, 2021)
14. The Forum Lounge: “New worm species found to have 3—not just two—different sexes” (September 28, 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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