PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 2 - 8, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 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. Advice and Dissent: “New book asserts Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (January 8, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English: “How inversion can clarify baffling sentences” (January 7, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 6, 2020)
4. Classic Grammar Baffler Revisited: “How do you deal with anticipatory ‘there’ clauses?” (January 3, 2021)
5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really in making things” (December 31, 2020)
6. Language Humor at its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 2, 2021)
7. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 1, 2021)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 1, 2021)
9. Retrospective Shoptalk Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2021)
10. A Grammar Dictum You Might Need To Junk: “Shedding off the active-voice straitjacket from our English” (January 6, 2021)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Playing boldly with sentences” (January 5, 2021)
12. Retrospective on Utterly Misleading Disaster News Story: “Shock-and-awe reportage on 2013 Bohol earthquake” (January 5, 2020)
13. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “34 business jokes and quotes” (January 5, 2021)
14. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2021)
15. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect gerund and its uses” (January 2, 2021)
16. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 2, 2021)
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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