PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 4 - 10, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 11 classic posts:
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: “Simpler alternatives for the subjunctive” (March 9, 2023)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2023) 
3. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2023) 
4. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2023) 
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “How I Discovered Gabriel García Márquez” (March 7, 2023) 
6. Advice and Dissent: “For better or worse, blurbs and their hyperboles are here to stay” (March 5, 2023) 
7. Going Deeper Into Language: Christopher Morley’s selection of “33 Modern English Essays” (March 5, 2023) 
8. Retrospective - Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2023)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings (March 9, 2023) 
10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (March 7, 2023)
11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Exercising caution in asserting what’s good or bad English” (March 7, 2023)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Make sure our expressions of endearment don't bungle their comparatives” (March 7, 2023) 
13. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2023) 
14. When Songwriters Take Liberties with Language: “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (March 6, 2023) 
15. Worth Watching Again and Again: “The Forum's March 2023 Special of Great Song Performances” (March 7, 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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