PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 11 - 17, 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: “Using the subjunctive form more confidently – 1” (February 16, 2023)
2. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2023) 
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Does ‘nor’ always need ‘neither’ to work properly?” (February 14, 2023) 
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (February 15, 2023) 
5. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives for more engaging writing” (February 13, 2023) 
6. My Media English Watch: “The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms” (February 13, 2023) 
7. Getting to Know English Better: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (February 11, 2023) 
8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (February 11, 2023)
9. Time Out From English Grammar “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (February 15, 2023)
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 15, 2023)
11. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: Jose Carillo's Essay “Waltzing on the Web” (February 14, 2023)
12. They'll Daze or At Least Amaze You: “25 English language oddities” (February 14, 2023)
13. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel B. Casillan’s “A Beauty and a Love Verboten” (February 13, 2023)
14. Advice and Dissent: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (February 13, 2023) 
15. Going Way, Way Down Memory Lane: “Manila at the turn of the 20th century” (February 11, 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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