PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 17 - 23, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings, 10 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: “Proper punctuation is the mark of a good writer” (October 22, 2020)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why are legal papers and contracts hard to understand?” (October 24, 2020)
3. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Homer’s classic ‘Iliad’ rendered in four English language registers” (October 25, 2020)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “One More Time About Six One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 22, 2020)
5. Distance-Learning Science Retrospective: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts” (October 22, 2020)
6. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part II: “The parenthesis and its uses: the appositive phrase” (October 24, 2020)
7. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the verb types in English – 1” (October 22, 2020)
8. Language Humor at its Finest: “If what’s said doesn’t make sense, go ask your doctor” (October 21, 2020)
9. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part I: “The parenthesis and its uses: parenthesis by comma” (October 21, 2020)
10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The grand embodiment of all that’s fraudulent in American mass culture” (October 22, 2020)
11. Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions - 4: “Getting to know the prepositional idioms” (October 20, 2020)
12. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “When the object of the verb is the doer itself” (October 22, 2020)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “What’s a nice, better way to announce the opening of a new bridge?” (October 22, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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