PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 20 - 26, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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: “Dealing with problematic pronoun usage- 2” (May 25, 2023)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2023)
3. Readings in Language: “The triumph of English over Babel to become the language of science” (May 21, 2023)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Grammar poll on a contentious subject-verb agreement disagreement” (May 21, 2023)
5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Cautionary tale on asserting what is good or bad English” (May 21, 2023) 
6. Time Out From English Grammar: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (May 21, 2023)
7. You Asked Me This Question: “How litotes and the double negative differ” (May 21, 2023) 
8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Does ‘journalese’ afflict Philippine journalism?” (May 21, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (May 23, 2023) 
10. Getting To Know English: “The participial phrase as multiword adjective” (May 20, 2023) 
11. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Is yelling ‘Greetings!’ or ‘Cheers!’ at the start of a letter acceptable?” (May 20, 2023) 
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (May 23, 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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