PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 23 - 29, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Why it’s easier to speak fluently in English than to write well in English” (May 28, 2020)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2020)
3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 28, 2020)
4. Language Humor at its Finest: “A Great Stand-up Comic’s Thoughts About Life and Sundry Things” (May 27, 2020)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap” (May 29, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: Gerry T. Galacio's “Unequal Englishes, Wronging English, Elitist English, Standard Philippine English” (May 27, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2020)
8. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2020)
9. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio's “Failing in bar exams is due to poor grammar and deficient writing skills” (May 25, 2020)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2020)
11. Again, Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2020)
12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2020)
13. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” May 23, 2020)
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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