PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 22 - 28, 2022) 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. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Doing more truthful, rational, responsible social media posts – 1” (January 27, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “How the three kinds of objects work in English grammar” (January 24, 2022)
3. Question Foremost in Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (January 26, 2022)
4. Grammatically Bungled Media English: “When a modifier squints, the dead could die again and again” (January 26, 2022)
5. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2022)
6. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Good Prose: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2022)
7. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (January 24, 2022)
8. A Grammar Refresher You Still Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2022)
9. Getting To Know English Better: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (January 26, 2022)
10. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2022)[/url]
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (January 26, 2022)
12. Not-Only-For-Lawyers Retrospective: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the U.S.” (January 24, 2022)
13. Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 22 2022)
14. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 22, 2022)
15. Getting To Know English Better: “How gerund phrases work” (January 25, 2022)
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”[/b]
(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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