PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 29 - September 4, 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: “Must an object always agree with its possessive pronoun?” (September 3, 2020)
2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 3, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “A question on progressive tense usage about current events” (September 4, 2020)
4. Are You Ready For A Big Self-Discovery? “Check how intelligent you really are” (September 4, 2020)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Agnostic philosopher bashes Richard Dawkins’ brand of atheism” (September 3, 2020)
6. Getting To Know English: “Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion” (September 4, 2020)
7. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 2, 2020)
8. Getting to Know English Better: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 2, 2020)
9. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (September 2, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Do we say “in the street” or “on the street”? (August 30, 2020)
11. Language Humor at its Finest: “Not for the tongue-tied: Tagalog tongue-twisters just this once” (August 30, 2020)
12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “For good or ill, the Filipino word ‘hulidap’ enters global lexicon” (August 30, 2020)
13. How English and Science Savvy are You? “44 actual misphrased statements from student science exams” (August 29, 2020)
14. Silent Fire Retrospective: “Split on infinitives” (August 30, 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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