PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 6, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 – 3” (March 5, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 6, 2020)
3. Away With Those Awful, Irritating Phrases!: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (March 6, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Question within a question” (March 3, 2020)
5. Language Humor at its Finest: “33 Plays Wyth Wurds Plus 33 Philosophies of Hypocrisy and Ambiguity” (March 5, 2020)
6. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “A quick review in the use or non-use of modifiers” (March 4, 2020)
7. Readings in Language: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than a minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2020)
8. Use and Misuse: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2020)
9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her’” (March 2, 2020)
10. Basic English Usage Refresher: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 2, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (March 1, 2020)
12. Getting To Know English Better: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2020)
13. Advice and Dissent: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 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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