PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 19 - 25, 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. Use and Misuse: “A letter from a bereaved German widower” (September 24, 2020)
2. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Epilogue: Teaching our children to think logically” (September 21, 2020)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Can an adjective be used as a subject in a sentence?” (September 25, 2020)
4. Reflections On How We Reckon With Time: “The days of our lives” (September 24, 2020)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (September 24, 2020)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (September 22, 2020)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Five ostensibly factual expressions we need to take with a grain of salt” (September 22, 2020)
8. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (September 22, 2020)
9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb ‘must’? (September 22, 2020)
10. Getting To Know English: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (September 22, 2020)
11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Words don’t come easy” (September 20, 2020)
12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “We’ve really learned English once we get conversant with its idioms” (September 20, 2020)
13. Getting to Know English: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (September 19, 2020)
14. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (September 19, 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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