PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 24 - 30, 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – Part 6” (April 29, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “What the origin of the word ‘gaslighting’ is and other intriguing questions” (April 30, 2021)
3. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A Filipino-Australian woman on helping people write and speak good English” (April 29, 2021)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Some informal prescriptions for better writing in English” (April 28, 2021)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific developments” (April 28, 2021)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 21, 2021)
7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Frenzied arrival reporting, this time for the ASEAN Summit dignitaries” (April 29, 2021)
8. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Getting reacquainted with the subordinating conjunctions” (April 27, 2021)
9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (April 27, 2021)
10. “The specific timelines for the perfect tenses – 2” (April 26, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question: “The usage of ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (April 26, 2021)
12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The proper use of ‘taken care of’” (April 26, 2021)
13. Real-World Application of Lewis Carroll’s “Symbolic Logic”: “Two simple sentences that create semantic conundrums” (April 24, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “How present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences” (April 23, 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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