PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 22 - 28, 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” (Paused this week, to continue with Part 10 on June 3, 2021)
2. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2021)
3. Getting to Know English Better: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2021)
4. Time Out From English Grammar: “Finding the diamond in a slush pile of unpublishable books” (May 27, 2021)
5. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “A great stand-up comic’s thoughts about life and sundry things” (May 27, 2021)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2021)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2021)
8. The Forum Lounge: “Reasons why people fail the bar exams—poor grammar, deficient writing skills” (May 25, 2021)
9. Once Again, Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2021)
10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2021)
11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (May 23, 2021)
12. The Lounge Retrospective: “Parenting Letter: Dear Mama and Papa” (May 22, 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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