PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 4 - 10, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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: “When splitting infinitives becomes a must for clarity’s sake” (July 9, 2020)
2. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (July 7, 2020)
3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The craft of writing headlines and titles – 1” (July 10, 2020)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Clarifying a key term in the impeachment process” (July 9, 2020)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Giving a touch of authority to our prose” (July 9, 2020)
6. Time Out From English Grammar: “A cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (July 8, 2020)
7. English Grammar and Usage Problematics: “The difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘watching’ a movie” (July 7, 2020)
8. Time Out from English Grammar: “Finding the diamond in a slush pile of unpublishable books” (July 7, 2020)
9. Time Out From English Grammar: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts” (July 6, 2020)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo: “How to avoid stumbling when using the English comparatives” (July 6, 2020)
11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What’s the most influential book in the U.S. of the past 20 years?” (July 6, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Looking deeply into religious belief as a problem in international affairs” (July 6, 2020)
13. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Bedlam when a verb is very late in coming” (July 4, 2020)
14. Recommended Self-Improvement Regimen: “How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying” (July 4, 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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