PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 6 - 12, 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: “When even the passive voice won’t suffice” (May 11, 2023)
2. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Verbs to tie up loose ends” (May 10, 2023)
3. Time Out From English Grammar: “The time thief who stole 106 rare clocks in a daring heist” (May 11, 2023)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’” (May 5, 2023) 
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Things nasty you might do if you’ve already mastered your English” (May 5, 2023) 
6. Getting to Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – II” (May 10, 2023) 
7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “A compelling alternative to Shakespeare's true identity was that he was a woman” (May 10, 2023)
8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (May 9, 2023)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal affairs” (May 9, 2023) 
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (May 12, 2023) 
11. Essay by Jose Carillo: “Are you correctly using the prepositions ‘between’ and ‘among’?” (May 7, 2023) 
12. You Asked Me This Question: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain?” (May 10, 2023) 
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Do we say ‘Just plug it!’ or ‘Just plug it in!’”? (May 9, 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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