PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 15 - 21, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 1” (February 20, 2020)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with questionable or downright wrong legalese” (February 20, 2020)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 21, 2020)
4. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Play it by ear whether to use a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase” (February 21, 2020)
5. Retrospective on Ungrammatical Song Lyrics: “When a tremendously popular song legitimizes a grammatical atrocity” (February 20, 2020)
6. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 funny English signboards from all over the world” (February 20, 2020)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare the ‘hard-headed businessman’ uncovered” in the Forum now! (February 20, 2020)
8. Time Out From Grammar: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Avoiding not only redundancy but ultra-redundancy in the same breath” (February 18, 2020)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 Famous Thoughts by Astute Minds” (February 17, 2020)
11. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “The importance of grammar-perfect English – VI” (February 17, 2020)
12. Making Light of What We Do for a Living: “60 really amusing job descriptions” (February 16, 2020)
13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (February 15, 2020)
14. Use and Misuse of English: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (February 15, 2020)
15. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2020)
16. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 15, 2020)
17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The battle for our minds” (February 14, 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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