PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 18 - 24, 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: “Using the subjunctive form more confidently – 2” (February 23, 2023)
2. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “Subordinate clauses don’t always play second fiddle to main clauses” (February 22, 2023) 
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Getting used to common English colloquialisms” (February 18, 2023) 
4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2023) 
5. Getting To Know English Better: “When can history be told in the present tense?” (February 18, 2023) 
6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare the ‘hard-headed businessman’ uncovered” (February 19, 2023) 
7. Essay by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The grammar of manners” (February 21, 2023) 
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 21, 2023)
9. A Treasure Trove of Great Verse: “A thousand and one English poems” (February 19, 2023) 
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: "The difference between misinformation and disinformation" (February 23, 2023)
11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin” (February 23, 2023)
12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The lure of the inverted pyramid” (February 23, 2023)
13. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (February 23, 2023) 
14. Refresher on the Basics of Expository Devices: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (February 23, 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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