PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 20 - 26, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Determiners as functional elements of sentence structure” (June 25, 2020)
2. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The perils of sweeping generalizations” (June 26, 2020)
3. Reality Bites in the Once-Noble U.S. Profession?: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (June 26, 2020)
4. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “How the numerals 0 - 9 got their shapes” (June 26, 2020)
5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’ when setting a range” (June 25, 2020)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (June 25, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question: “Should the law and lawyers casually say ‘plea of guilty’ and ‘plea of innocent’?” (June 25, 2020)
8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’ when setting a range” (June 25, 2020)
9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Should a noun modified by ‘respective’ always be plural in form?” (June 25, 2020)
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “In self-defense, we must see through deliberately devious English jargon” (June 23, 2020)
11. Oh No Love Lost Among Them!: “The league of great literary authors is hardly a mutual admiration society” (June 23, 2020)
12. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “29 more great palindromes for the road” (June 22, 2020)
13. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense” (June 22, 2020)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Mastering the fine art of negation in English” (June 21, 2020)
15. Advice and Dissent: “The Roman Empire was built on infrastructure awaiting a pandemic--historian” (June 21, 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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