PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 1 - 7, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
20 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 Lookback: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (August 6, 2020)
2. How to Punctuate with Finesse: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (August 7, 2020)
3. Getting To Know English Better: “The virtue of elliptical sentence constructions” (August 7, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Are ‘quick perusal’ and ‘careful’ redundant expressions?” (August 5, 2020)
5. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 6, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The English mealtime vocabulary” (August 5, 2020)
7. Revisionist Look at Alexander the Great: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6, 2020)
8. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Lea Salonga-Josh Groban duet of ‘The Prayer’ in Manila” (August 5, 2020)
9. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “20 wonderfully described definitions” (August 5, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (August 4, 2020)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable’” (August 3, 2020)
12. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (August 3, 2020)
13. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 2020)
14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineer the human brain to make ourselves smarter?” (August 3, 2020)
15. Getting to Know English Better: “Precisely when is ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (August 2, 2020)
16. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’” (August 2, 2020)
17. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Secret Love” (August 2, 2020)
18. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What is a photocopier?” (August 1, 2020)
19. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2020)
20. Language Humor At Its Finest: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 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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