PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 27 - June 2, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 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: “The thorny grammar of the indefinite pronouns” (June 1, 2023)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (May 30, 2023)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Why it’s easier to speak fluently in English than to write well in English” (May 28, 2023)
4. Getting to Know English Retrospective:: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2023)
5. Advice and Dissent: “Color doesn’t inhabit the physical world but only exists in the beholder's eyes” (May 31, 2023)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Developing the confidence to match ‘confident’ with the right preposition” (May 30, 2023) 
7. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it grammatical to use ‘respective memorandum’ in court decisions?” (May 30, 2023) 
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: "Is ‘fiscalizer’ a legitimate word in the English language?" (June 2, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Societies explained satirically plain and simple” (May 30, 2023) 
10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A letter from a bereaved German widower” (June 2, 2023) 
11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that weirdly went awry” (June 2, 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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