PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 25- 31, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new 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 Know English Much Better: “The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctive” (January 30, 2020)
2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Wacky Phonetics: 22 English translations into Chinese in 5 minutes or less” (January 30, 2020)
3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoidance of confusing fused or run-on sentences” (January 28, 2020)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why do we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue?” (January 28, 2020)
5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A sixth mass extinction in our planet is now unfolding right before our eyes” (January 27, 2020)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent science news” (January 27, 2020)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “The perils of missing periods or forgetting commas” (January 30, 2020)
8. Priming Up Retrospective For Valentine’s Day: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ enters the French lexicon” (January 27, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “Three very interesting questions by new Forum member, answered at long last!” (January 27, 2020)
10. Getting To Know English Better: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (January 27, 2020)
11. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “When a modifier squints, the dead could die again and again” (January 26, 2020)
12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (January 25, 2020)
14. Time Out from Grammar: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (January 25, 2020)
15. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”[/size] (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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