Playlist Update (January 28 - February 3, 2023) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 28 - February 3, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 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 Write English Better: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 5” (February 2, 2023)




2. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (February 1, 2023)   




3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun 'everybody'” (February 2, 2023)   




3. Time Out From English Grammar: “For all lovers worldwide, here’s the real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 2, 2023)   




4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2023)   




5. Essay by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (February 3, 2023)   




6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’”? (February 1, 2023)   




7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Every language is a distinctively human model of logic and reality” (January 31, 2023)




8. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (February 2, 2023)




9. Advice and Dissent: “Point counterpoint on why Asian-American students excel in the U.S” (January 31, 2023)




10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 3, 2023)




11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2023)




12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue”  (February 2, 2023)   




13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “You may not have felt them yet, but these emotional states exist"  (February 3, 2023)   




14. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Antonio Calipjo Go’s “The Two Hemispheres of Me” (January 31, 2023)






CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):

1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines”
    (Originally posted January 8, 2021)



2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong”
    (Originally posted November 10, 2018)



3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” 
    (Originally posted June 19, 2009)



4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
     (Originally posted January 22, 2017)



5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

   

6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
    (Originally posted February 10, 2010   Reposted February 1, 2014)



7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
    (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)



8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)



9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
    (Posted July 11, 2016)



10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
    (Posted December 30, 2016)



11. “Indignities in American minor”
    (Posted October 27, 2016)




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