PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 8 - 14, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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 8” (May 13, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “How litotes and the double negative differ” (May 14, 2021)
3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “A compelling alternative to Shakespeare’s true identity was that he was a woman”” (May 14, 2021)
4. Getting to Know English Better: “Revisiting the ‘who’/ ‘whom’ grammar conundrum” (May 14, 2021)
5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to identify what’s wrong in a sentence construction test” (May 14, 2021)
6. Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2021)
7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “14 things my mother taught me” (May 11, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest “53 memorable quotes from famous celebrities over the years” (May 8, 2021)
9. English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Gobbledygook na Ingles at Tagalog” (“Inday ng Buhay Natin”) (May 8, 2021)
10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The reign of the dreadful clichés” (May 8, 2021)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What Is a photocopier?” (May 8, 2021)
12. Getting To Know English Better: “Are you using ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive?” (May 8, 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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