PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 17 - 23, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 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 – 5” (April 22, 2021)
2. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “Teaching our children to think logically” (April 23, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences” (April 23, 2021)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 21, 2021)
5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the name ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (April 21, 2021)
6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (April 17, 2021)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Tolkien: A name destined for philological studies and the creation of imaginary works” (April 22, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (April 22, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Misuse of “lie” and “lay” punctures many writers’ command of English” (April 21, 2021)
10. Question Foremost in Most Laypeople’s Minds: “Why are legal documents not in plain and simple English” (April 13, 2021)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When it becomes a must to split infinitives for clarity’s sake” (April 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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