PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 29 - May 5, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 Know English Better: “In defense of the passive voice” (May 4, 2023)
2. Readings in Language: “The New Reading Environment—After Twitter” (May 4, 2023)
3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Why an object needn’t follow the verb ‘told’” (April 30, 2023)
4. Getting To Know English Better: “Some hard-and-fast rules on infinitive usage” (April 28, 2023) 
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (April 28, 2023) 
6. Getting to Know English: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (May 2, 2023) 
7. You Asked Me This Question: “Which is correct: 'My brother and I…' or 'I and my brother…'?” (May 1, 2023)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “What’s the origin of the word ‘gaslighting’ and other questions” (April 29, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “25 ludicrously funny analogies” (May 4, 2023) 
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (April 30,2023) 
11. You Asked Me This Question: “Is there an English word for ‘malasakit’?” (May 1, 2023) 
12. Getting to Know English: “Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives!” (April 30, 2023) 
13. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Parentheses aren't just those twin curved marks but any amplifying material” (4 Parts) (April 30, 2023) 
14. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (May 4, 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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