PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 24 - 30, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years” – Part 18 (July 29, 2021)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2021)
3. Time Out From English Grammar “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics” (July 29, 2021)
4. Readings in Language: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book”’ (July 28, 2021)
5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Computer-coding a religion that can be acceptable to all of humanity (July 28, 2021)
6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 29, 2021)
7. Language Humor At Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (July 27, 2021)
8. Looking Back To Your Thoughts Exactly: Tonybau’s “Before and during the Covid-19 lockdown” (July 27, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The choice between ‘among’ and ‘between’ revisited” (July 26, 2021)
10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime” (July 26, 2021)
11. Quick Explication For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘None’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2021)
12. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 26, 2021)
13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 25, 2021)
14. Enduring Non-Grammar Classic in the Forum: Ben Sanchez's “14 things my mother taught me” (July 25, 2021)
15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Five ostensibly factual expressions we need to take with a grain of salt” (July 25, 2021)
16. The Forum Lounge: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (July 24, 2021)
17. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Getting acclimatized to Philippine weather terminology” (July 24, 2021)
18. Readings in Language: “Charming take on writers as not-so-great conversationalists” (July 24, 2021)
19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of the preposition ‘between’” (July 24, 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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