PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 28 - February 3, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 – 6” (February 9, 2023)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2023) 
3. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 2023) 
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2023) 
5. When What’s Meant Isn’t Exactly What’s Said: “The nature of true idioms” (February 5, 2023) 
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Teaching our children to think logically” (February 5, 2023) 
6. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 3” (February 4, 2023) 
7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need for genuine leisure instead of a mad, unending pursuit of wealth” (February 7, 2023)
8. Language Humor at its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2023)
9. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2023)
10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2023)
11. Looking Forward to Lovers’ Day: Maximo Tumbali’s “Valentine’s Day is a Celebration of Love” (February 10, 2023)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Michel Montaigne as influential contemporary writer for all time” (February 4, 2023) 
13. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics” (February 4, 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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