PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 19 - 25, 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 13 (June 24, 2021)
2. Students’ Sounding Board: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?” (June 22, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How do ‘I hope’ and ‘hopefully’ differ and is the latter acceptable usage?” (June 23, 2021)
4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but also a hard-headed businessman” (June 22, 2021)
5. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense” (June 22, 2021)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The Roman Empire was built on infrastructure awaiting a pandemic—historian” (June 20, 2021)
7. Language Humor at its Finest “29 more great palindromes for the road” (June 22, 2021)
8. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “It’s time for the Filipino to make himself truly globally competitive” (June 19, 2021)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use full infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds - 1” (June 19, 2021)
10. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Prayer to St. Jude” (June 19, 2021)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Choosing a CEO for Philippines Inc. is actually a no-brainer” (June 19, 2021)
12. The Forum Lounge: “A Rizal retrospective on his 160th birth anniversary” (June 19, 2021)
13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought” (June 18, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “Can the article ‘the’ be dropped if it refers to a specific noun?” (June 18, 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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