PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 29 - February 4, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 – 2” (February 3, 2022)
2. Banish Your Bafflement Over This Mood: “The subjunctive and its functions – 1” January 31, 2022
3. Getting to Know English Better: “How the English personal pronouns inflect for case” (January 30, 2022)
4. February Being the Month of Hearts: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 1, 2022)
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5. Getting to Know English Better: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case” (January 29, 2022)
6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why do we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue?” (January 28, 2022)
7. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “A delightful hodgepodge of ‘sniglets’” (January 31, 2022)
8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2022)
9. Time Out From Grammar: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2022)
10. Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 1, 2022)[/url]
11. Giving Zest to Our English: "Using synonyms to enliven prose" (January 29, 2022)
12. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Gerry T. Galacio's ““Legal articles on the Family Code and other topics ” (Febuary 2, 2022)
13. Getting to Know English Much Better: “It’s a mark of civility to use ‘can’ and ‘may’ properly” (January 31, 2022)
14. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics” (February 3, 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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