PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 26 - July 2, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 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 14 (July 1, 2021)
2. (Not Really a) Use and Misuse Question: “What are substantive and attributive clauses?” (June 29, 2021)
3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Tough questions about sentence structure and pronoun usage” (June 29, 2021)
4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2021)
5. Tricky Aspect of Reported Speech: “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule” (June 27, 2021)
6. Education and Teaching Commentary: Antonio Calipjo Go's “What will be left for students to learn after the DepEd's latest K-12 curriculum review?” (June 30, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (June 30, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Just playing with words today for the sheer fun of doing it!” (June 27, 2021)
9. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (June 30, 2021)
10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (June 27, 2021)
11. Time Out From English Grammar:: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (June 26, 2021)
12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (June 26, 2021)
13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don’t be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths!” (June 25, 2021)
14. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts” (June 25, 2021)
15. Going Deeper Into Language: “A Thousand and One English Poems” (June 29, 2021)
16. Getting to Know English Test: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior’s?” (June 25, 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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