PLAYLIST UPDATE ((March 6 - 12, 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. Advice and Dissent: “After 500 years, will the true site of the first Holy Mass get firmly established once and for all?” (March 12, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question: “Making sense of abstruse legalese” (March 11, 2021)
3. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 12, 2021)
4. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2021)
5. Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2020)
6. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2021)
7. Unsettling Retrospectives for Hero Worshippers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2021)
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2021)
9. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2021)
10. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2021)
11. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed:“Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2021)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When English isn’t the English that we know” ”
13. Advice and Dissent: Spanish historian’s commentary on Gines de Mafra’s account of Magellan’s sojourn” (March 9, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7,2021)
14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 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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