PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “The pronoun ‘what’ isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertion” (July 2, 2020)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 2, 2020)
3. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2020)
4. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2020)
5. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting obsessed over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 2020)
6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “‘18 years old and above’ or ‘18 years old and older’?” (July 3, 2020)
7. Getting to Know the Tenses Better: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (July 1, 2020)
8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (June 30, 2020)
9. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-Ups That Bungle What We Mean” (June 30, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why is it easier for learners to speak English than write it?” (June 30, 2020)
11. Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2020)
12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (June 29, 2020)
13. Education and Teaching: Antonio Calipjo Go’s "Digital Learning Plan in Generating and Curating Content for Flexible Learning” (June 28, 2020)
14. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Using euphemism to cushion the blow of request rejections” (June 28, 2020)
15. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “13 + 1 Key Differences Between Men and Women” (June 28, 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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