PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 30 - February 5, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
14 new postings, 11 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. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 3” (February 4, 2021)
2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Learning the English idioms” (February 3, 2021)
3. Time Out From English Grammar; “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2021)
4. Getting to Know English Better: “How the English personal pronouns inflect for case” (January 30, 2021)
5. Getting To Know English Better: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case” (January 29, 2020)
6. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (February 3, 2021 )
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A masterful guide to the craft of modern nonfiction writing” (January 29, 2021)
8. The Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2021)
9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Michel Montaigne as influential contemporary writer for all time” (February 3, 2021)
10. Time Out From English Grammar: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2021 )
11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (February 1, 2021)
12. Essays By Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 1, 2021)
13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A delightful hodgepodge of ‘sniglets’” (January 31, 2021)
14. Language Humor At Its Finest: “The perils of missing periods or forgetting commas” (January 30, 2021)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (Originally posted January 8, 2021)
2. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
4. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
6. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
7. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
9. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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