PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 1 - 7, 2022) 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Schemes as fancier forms of wordplay – 2” (January 6, 2021)
2. Furor Over Confusing Usage: “Four perplexing questions about the perfect tenses” (January 5, 2022)
3. A Grammar Dictum You Might Need To Junk Now: “Shedding off the active-voice straitjacket from our English” (January 6, 2022)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The perfect gerund and its uses” (January 2, 2022 )
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My hunch was right about the usage of ‘between’ and ‘among’” (January 6, 2022)
6. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2022 )
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “34 audacious business jokes and quotes” (January 4, 2022)
8. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “5 bewildering questions about English usage” (January 4, 2022)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great movie titles in the making” (January 4, 2022)
10. Most Annoying English Grammar Errors:: “Why ‘come’ and ‘go’ and ‘bring’ and ‘take’” are often misused” (January 2, 2022)
11. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “A noun modified by ‘respective’ should always be plural in form” (January 2, 2022)
12. Retrospective on a Misplaced Informality: “Is ‘Hi!’a proper way to begin a job application letter?” (January 2, 2022)
13. Getting To Know English: “Disrupting the declarative sentence pattern for emphasis” (January 1, 2022)
14. Language Humor at its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams to tickle your fancy” (January 2, 2022)
15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “'Babel No More' explores the upper limits of being multilingual” (January 1, 2022)
16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking back to the 19 years that I’ve been an English-usage columnist” (January 2, 2022)
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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