PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 14 - 20, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 10 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. You Asked Me This Question: “When notional agreement overrides grammatical agreement” (November 19, 2020)
2. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctive mood” (November 15, 2020)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “An English-language conundrum (or ‘In how many ways can you skin a cat?’)” (November 15, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The ‘who’/‘whom’ grammar conundrum revisited” (November 20, 2020)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Noble Thoughts in Similar Jeopardy” (November 20, 2020)
6. This Isn’t A Joke But Serious Business: “Take this IQ test to check how intelligent you really are!” (November 20, 2020)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (November 19, 2020)
8. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “What’s deemed as proper English really only a matter of fashion“ (November 19, 2020)
9. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles getting out of hand“ (November 19, 2020)
10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (November 18, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Your handling of numbers and time reflects the clarity of your thinking” (November 18, 2020)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those bits of journalistic nonsense” (November 18, 2020)
13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Funny typos and grammar errors that bug real church bulletins” (November 17, 2020)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a Used Jar” (November 17, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “What to do when a simple indicative sentence just can’t make your point” (November 17, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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