PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 22 - 28, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
10 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: “How the English demonstrative pronouns work” (August 27, 2020)
2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (August 28, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Can both adverbs and adjectives modify gerund phrases?” (August 28, 2020)
4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Science works only because it feeds on curiosity and breaks its own rules” (August 26, 2020)
5. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (August 23, 2020)
6. Just a Little Retrospective for Birthdays: “No need to hold 'celebrant' in a straightjacket” (August 23, 2020)
7. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Current private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (August 23, 2020)
8. A Silent Fire Retrospective: “Giving justice to J.R.R. Tolkien” (August 27, 2020)
9. A Post-Birthday Retrospective: “Redux: A Special 2016 Year-End Folio of My Essays” (August 25, 2020)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers” (August 25, 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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