PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 30 - August 5, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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 Know English Better: “Forming negative sentences correctly” (August 4, 2022)
2. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2022)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences" (July 30, 2022)
4. Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Choosing between a descriptivist and prescriptivist dictionary” (July 30, 2022)
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (July 30, 2022)
6. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?” (August 1, 2022)
7. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin” (July 30, 2022)
8. Language Humor at Its Finest: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 2022)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2022)
10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (August 5, 2022)
11. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (August 5, 2022)
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: "‘Nakakagigil’ gets lost in the English translation" (August 5, 2022)
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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