PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 18 - 24, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings, 10 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 23, 2020)
2. Going Deeper Into Language: “Teaching our children to think logically” (April 23, 2020)
3. Language Humor at its Finest: “26 funny sayings & witty puns” (April 25, 2020)
4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Prepositions at work in prepositional idioms” (April 25, 2020)
5. Real-World Application of Lewis Carroll’s “Symbolic Logic”: “Two simple sentences that create semantic conundrums” (April 24, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “How do present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences?” (April 23, 2020)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (April 22, 2020)
8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Tolkien: A name destined for philological studies and the creation of imaginary works” (April 22, 2020)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Misuse of ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ punctures many writers’ command of English” (April 20, 2020)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 20, 2020)
11. Timely Retrospective For The Covid-19 Lockdown: “Incredulous over an ever-loving omnipotent creator consumed by an endless rage” (April 20, 2020)
12. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (April 19, 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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