PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 25 - 31, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings, 11 classic posts:
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: “When the object of the action is the doer itself” (March 30, 2023)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (March 27, 2023) 
3. You Asked Me This Question: ““Does the excessive use of ellipses becloud the sense of sentences” (March 27, 2023) 
4. Getting To Know English Better: “How English auxiliary verbs differ from linking verbs” (March 27, 2023)
5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 25, 2023) 
6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 25, 2023) 
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Giving a touch of authority to our prose” (March 25, 2023) 
8. On a Lark While in the Best of Health: “Take an IQ test to find out how intelligent you are” (March 27, 2023) 
9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “54 news headlines that went awry” (March 27, 2023) 
10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (March 27, 2023) 
11. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “Two memorable and truly inspiring commencement speeches” (March 27, 2023)
12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 25, 2023)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “Puzzling over the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2023) 
14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Top 100 funniest one-liners in the Encycopedia of Humor” (March 25, 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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