PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 31 - August 6, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(00 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 19 (August 5, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “Precisely when is ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (August 2, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (July 31, 2021)
4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineer the human brain to make ourselves smarter?” (August 3, 2021)
5. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 2021)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable’” (August 3, 2021)
7. Advice and Dissent: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’” (August 2, 2021)
8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Wonderfully Described Definitions” (August 5, 2021)
9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Secret Love” (August 2, 2021)
10. Use and Misuse: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English (July 31, 2021)
11. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2021)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2021)
13. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin”” (July 30, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Are the phrases 'quick perusal' and 'careful perusal' redundant expressions?” (August 5, 2021)
15. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Lea Salonga-Josh Groban duet of ‘The Prayer’ in Manila” (August 5, 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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