PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 5 - 11, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Make sure your endearment doesn’t bungle its comparative” (September 10, 2020)
2. Don’t Miss This, World History Teachers, Students, Pupils! “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (September 9, 2020)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Caution in times of reasonable doubt” (September 9, 2020)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “When children define science in their own terms” (September 8, 2020)
5. Getting to Know English: “The six ways that English evokes the future” (September 12, 2020)
6. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Choosing the right words” (September 12, 2020)
7. You Asked Me This Question: “Phrases desirable and abstruse” (September 12, 2020)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (September 12, 2020)
9. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The need to be grammatically correct in our English” (September 10, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A question on progressive tense usage about current events” (September 9, 2020)
11. Grammar Sounding Board: “Confusion over the use of ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’” (September 9, 2020)
12. Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 7, 2020)
13. Are You Ready For A Big Self-Discovery? “Check how intelligent you really are” (September 7, 2020)
14. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A deep personal sense of connection with people who aren’t real” (September 12, 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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