PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 7 - 13, 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 20 (August 12, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Do you agree that ‘Yes.’ cannot be considered as a sentence?” (August 6, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8,2021)
4. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 11, 2021)
5. Why Some of Us are Saints, Heels, or Psychopaths: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (August 8, 2021)
6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (August 9, 2021)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a Used Jar” (August 11, 2021)
8. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1” (August 9, 2021)
9. Getting to Know The Tenses Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 8, 2021)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 12, 2021)
11. Matters of Academic Performance Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (August 8, 2021)
12. Getting to Know English Lookback: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (August 6, 2021)
13. Revisionist Look at Alexander the Great: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6,2021)
14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 6, 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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