PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 15 - 21, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 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 9” (May 20, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 16, 2021)
3. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (May 20, 2021)
4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The triumph of English over Babel to become the language of science” (May 21, 2021)
5. Getting to Know English Better: “Which,” “that,” and "who" and other grammar pitfalls (May 18, 2021)
6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2021)
7. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 18, 2021)
8. Advice and Dissent: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain” (May 16, 2021)
9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (May 15, 2021)
10. Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 15, 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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