PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 16 - 22, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
10 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. My Media English Watch Revisited: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 1” (January 21, 2021)
2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (January 22, 2021)
3. A Grammar Refresher You Just Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2021)
4. Language Humor at Its Finest: “Top One Hundred Funniest One-Liners” (January 21, 2021)
5. Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 21, 2020)
6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the one nonfiction book that each profoundly changed their minds” (January 19, 2020)
7. Getting To Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 18, 2021)
8. Jaw-dropper Grammar Misuse You Might Have Missed: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 19, 2020)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘mine’ works as pronoun or adjective but not as determiner” (January 19, 2021)
10. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 21, 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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