PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 18 - 24, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Tropes and schemes as deeper rhetorical devices” (December 23, 2021)
2. The Forum Lounge: “Pronouns as subject complement always take the subjective form” (December 22, 2021)
3. The Most Annoying English Grammar Errors: “The misuse of participles” (December 22, 2021)
4. Correspondence With A Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 23, 2021)
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (December 24, 2021)
6. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: 6. “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (December 23, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Humanity is evolutionarily hard-wired for God, psychologist argues” (December 22, 2021)
8. There’s Still Time To Be Naughty Before Christmas: “A Christmas Q&A for Language Buffs” (December 22, 2021)
9. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2021)
10. Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can sometimes be put to good use” (December 20, 2021)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Things my English teacher never taught me” (December 18, 2021)
12. You’ll Likely Want To Watch This Again and Again: Louie Schwartzberg’s “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (December 18, 2021)
13. Anonymous Child’s Letter to His/Her Parents: “10 don’ts that I wanted to tell you some time” (December 21, 2021)
14. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “Letter from Germany on how synonyms and pleonasms differ” (December 20, 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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