PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 12 - 18, 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. Use and Misuse: “A curious encounter about the use of position titles” (September 17, 2020)
2. Just In Case You Didn’t Know Yet: “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know” (September 17, 2020)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The evil that ignorance and incompetence can do” (September 17, 2020)
4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “When a word can either be a noun or an adjective” (September 17, 2020)
5. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations” (September 17, 2020)
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (September 18, 2020)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 of the Best British Jokes” (September 14, 2020)
8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So Stuttgart is the world’s least stressful city, and Manila the 10th most stressful?” (September 16, 2020)
9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “How today’s literary style was shaped by modernist approaches to rewriting” (September 14, 2020)
10. Students’ Sounding Board: “The difference between nouns preceded by the article “a” and by “the” (September 14, 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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