PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 8 - 14, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 Better: “Appositives for more engaging writing” (February 13, 2020)
2. Setting The Mood For Love: “The genesis and evolution of love songs as transcendent art form” (February 13, 2020)
3. Commemorative Essay by Jose Carillo: “The Real Score About Valentine’s Day” (February 13, 2020)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (February 13, 2020)
5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms” (February 13, 2020)
6. Use and Misuse: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words” (February 12, 2020)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (February 11, 2020)
8. Going Way, Way Down Memory Lane: “Manila at the turn of the 20th Century” (February 11, 2020)
9. Refresher in English Grammar Basics: “Phrasal verbs are phrases with a figurative meaning” (February 10, 2020)
10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Awful, otherworldly use of the possessive form” (February 10, 2020)
11. Rendezvous with “Pun-ography”: “32 rollicking wordplays to perk up your day” (February 9, 2020)
12. Refresher in Punctuating Amplifying Elements: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (February 9, 2020)
13. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2020)
14. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 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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