PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 25 - March 3, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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 – 3” (March 2, 2023)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (March 1, 2023) 
3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her’” (February 28, 2023) 
4. Use and Misuse: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2023) 
5. Time Out From English Grammar: “Vengeful poet-editor heaps calumny in his 1849 obituary of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe” (February 26, 2023) 
6. Readings in Language Retrospective: “How math and biology have joined forces to unravel the riddle of life” (February 25, 2023) 
7. Use and Misuse: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (February 25, 2023) 
8. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “Long overlooked for months, ‘Connecting Flights’ finally connects with me” (February 25, 2023)
9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “33 plays wyth wurds plus 33 philosophies of hypocrisy and ambiguity” (February 26, 2023) 
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10. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: “Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2023)
11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2023)
12. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking church dogma” (February 25, 2023) 
13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “‘Hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (February 25, 2023) 
14. Advice and Dissent: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2023) 
15. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan’s “A Prayer to St. Jude” (March 1, 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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