Playlist Update (January 14 - 20, 2022) for Forum Gateway on Facebook

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 14 - 20, 2023) 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 Write English Better: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 3” (January 19, 2023)




2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How ‘mine’ works as pronoun or adjective but not as determiner” (January 18, 2023)   




3. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 18, 2023)   




4. Time Out From English Grammar: “Sandro Botticelli's intricate paintings of woman’s hair” (January 20, 2023)   




5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A serious grammar syndrome” (January 18, 2023)   




6. Getting To Know English Better: “How infinitive phrases work” (January 18, 2023)   




7. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Writing: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2023)




8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds”” (January 16, 2023)




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Fact-checking 44 misphrased statements from students’ science exams” (January 7, 2023)




10. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2023)




11. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2023)




12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misplaced modifying phrase fractures Bohol earthquake news” (January 15, 2023)




13. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “The usage of ‘there is’/‘there are’ anticipatory clauses” (January 14, 2023)




14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 14, 2023)




15. Never Too Late Just in Case You Missed It: “The Forum's 2023 New Year Retrospective Special” (January 1, 2023)






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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