PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 16 - 22, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(8 new postings, 10 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. You Asked Me This Question: “How litotes and the double negative differ” (May 21, 2020)
Plus:
Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: "My misgivings when people wish me more power" (October 23, 2010)
2. The Great Shift to Pragmatic Language: “Transitioning from academic to business English” (May 22, 2020)
3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How elliptical sentences differ from elliptical clauses” (May 22, 2020)
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: Gerry T. Galacio’s “Does ‘journalese’ afflict Philippine journalism?” (May 21, 2020)
5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The triumph of English over Babel to become the language of science” (May 20, 2020)
6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2020)
7. The Lounge Retrospective: Forum Member Justine Aragones shares "Parenting Letter: Dear Mama and Papa" (May 18, 2014)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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