PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 2 - 8, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Are you using ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive?” (May 7, 2020)
2. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The reign of the dreadful clichés” (May 8, 2020)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “53 memorable quotes from famous celebrities over the years” (May 8, 2020)
4. Forum Lounge Retrospective: New York Times Op-Docs episode--“Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?” (May 8, 2020)
5. English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Gobbledygook na Ingles at Tagalog” (“Inday ng Buhay Natin”) (May 7, 2020)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “The choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (May 6, 2020)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “Snarky translations of common scientific research phrases” (May 7, 2020)
8. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Dealing wisely with negatives” (May 6, 2020)
9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Things nasty you might do if you’ve already mastered your English” (May 5, 2020)
10. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – I” (May 4, 2020)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A cautionary tale of a man’s deep aversion to change” (May 4, 2020)
12. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use the past progressive tense?” (May 2, 2020)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Which construction is correct: ‘My brother and I…’ or ‘I and my brother…’?” (May 1, 2020)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (May 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” (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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