PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 8 - 14, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
19 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 we must use the passive voice for clarity’s sake” (August 13, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (August 14, 2020)
3. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 14, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Indignities in American minor” (August 14, 2020)
5. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 13, 2020)
6. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 13, 2020)
7. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (August 13, 2020)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 12, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic (for good or ill)” (August 12, 2020)
10. Retrospective to a Forum Lounge Classic: Andy Rooney's “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (August 12, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (August 10, 2020)
12. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 10, 2020)
13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 mind-boggling imponderables to think through” (August 10, 2020)
14. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1” (August 9, 2020)
15. Getting to Know English: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (August 8, 2020)
16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8, 2020)
17. Getting to Know The Tenses Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 8, 2020)
18. Why Some of Us are Saints, Heels, or Psychopaths: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (August 8, 2020)
19. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio’s “The quiz boys of the 1970s and early 1980s” (August 8, 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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