PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 29 - June 4, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 10 (June 3, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (June 3, 2021)
3. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 3, 2021)
4. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2021)
5. Your Thoughts Exactly: “A Stone So Heavy But with a Strong Desire to Float" by Antonio Calipjo Go (June 4, 2021)
6. Retrospective on a Misdirected Environmental War: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2021)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that went awry” (June 2, 2021)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (June 1, 2021)
9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 31, 2021)
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar” (June 4, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 2, 2021)
12. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Part 1 - Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions” (June 1, 2021)
13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 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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