PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 14 - 20, 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: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 19, 2020)
3. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2020)
4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2020)
5. A Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Don't third conditionals backshift in reported speech?” (March 19, 2020)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras” (March 19, 2020)
8. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 18, 2020)
9. Taking Up Again Some Interesting Grammar Basics: “Of numbers and numerals and the usage of ‘will’ and ‘would’” (March 16, 2020)
10. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2020)
11. Advice and Dissent: “Dead Sea Scroll fragments acquired by U.S. Bible museum are forgeries” (March 16, 2020)
12. My Thoughts Exactly: Antonio Calipjo Go's Essay “Bridges” (March 16, 2020)
13. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2020)
14. Getting To Know English Better: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2020)
15. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “What does it mean to be asked ‘Are you understanding me?’?” (March 14, 2020)
16. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Precisely determining what ‘determiners’ are” (March 14, 2020)
17. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don’t be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 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” (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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