PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 17 - 23, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years” - Part 17 (July 22, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How to use the phrases ‘was/were to be’ and ‘was/were to have been’” (July 21, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2021)
4. Students’ Sounding Board: “What’s the correct format for writing dates in scientific literature?” (July 21, 2021)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words in English” (July 21, 2021)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2021)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “45 puns that can make you do jail time” (July 20, 2021)
8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media” (July 20, 2021)
9. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 1” (July 12, 2021)
10. Saying Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Vin09’s “How Light Dawns on Us” (July 11, 2021)
11. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?” (July 20, 2021)
12. Essays by Jose Carillo: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers” (July 19, 2021)
13. Their Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Five lay bare their thoughts on language, suffrage, carnage by gunfire” (July 18, 2021)
14. Use and Misuse: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing” (July 18, 2021)
15. You Asked Me This Question: “When people ask a question within a question” (July 17, 2021)
16. Time Once More for an All-Time Forum Classic: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (July 17, 2021)
17. You Asked Me This Question “How the three kinds of objects work in English” (July 17, 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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