PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 25 - 31, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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: “Schemes as fancier forms of wordplay – 1” (December 30, 2021)
2. Question That Still Nags Some English Speakers: “Can we confidently drop the “that” in indirect speech?” (December 28, 2021)
3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using causative and factitive verbs” (December 27, 2021)
4. Banish The Old Bromide That All Are Created Equal: “Geniuses are clear proof that this just isn't true” (December 29, 2021)
5. Rizal Day Special Retrospective: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 30, 2021)
6. An Essay on Language That You Might Have Missed: “When saying it once isn’t enough” (December 26, 2021)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 puzzling imponderables” (December 27, 2021)
8. Time Out From English Grammar “Our morality’s chemistry hinges on a hormone called oxytocin” (December 29, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: "On the trail of serendipity" (December 25, 2021)
10. English Orthography Retrospective: “Why must we always capitalize the first-person singular personal pronoun ‘I’?” (December 25, 2021)
11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2021)
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Stanley Fish’s “How To Write a Sentence and How to Read One” (December 28, 2021)
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “What was the world like during your birth year?” (December 28, 2021)
14. Take Your Picks Now For Your Best Wishes: “How to greet someone ‘Happy New Year!’ in any of the world’s 58 languages” (December 31, 2021)
15. Forum Lounge Special: “A stage musical presentation to take your breath away!” (December 28, 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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