PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 4 - 10, 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: “Using the right tense for reported speech” (April 9, 2020)
2. Views and Commentaries: Maximo Tumbali’s “Reflections This Holy Week in the Time of Covid-19” (April 9, 2020)
3. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2020)
4. Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 10, 2020)
5. You Asked Me This Question: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 10, 2020)
6. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2020)
7. Meditations for Our Digital Age--A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2020)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (April 8, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Plural form of ‘thank you’ when used as a noun” (April 8, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2020)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 2020)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2020)
13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2020)
14. A Meditation You May Want To Share Right Now: Louie Schwartzberg's TED presentation on “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (April 6, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (April 5, 2020)
16. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (April 5, 2020)
17. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 5, 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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