PLAYLIST UPDATE ((March 13 - 19, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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. Students’ Sounding Board: “A student’s travails in modular distance learning” (March 18, 2021)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 17, 2021)
4. Language Humor at Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 15, 2021)
5. Getting To Know English: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2021)
6. Use and Misuse: “What does it mean to be asked “Are you understanding me?”” (March 12, 2021)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “Puns to poke fun at the pain of occupational dismissals” (March 17, 2021)
8. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 15, 2021)
9. Advice and Dissent: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 14, 2021)
10. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of “I” isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2021)
11. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2021)
12. Use and Misuse: “Precisely determining what ‘determiners’ are” (March 14, 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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