PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 5 - 11, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 – 3” (February 10, 2022)
2. You Asked Me This Question: "When is using a parenthetical necessary in a sentence?" (January 19, 2018)
2A. Later Related Reading: “Refresher in punctuating amplifying elements” (February 9, 2022)
3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “The flexible positions of participial phrases" (February 9, 2022)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2022)
5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2022)
6. Advice and Dissent: “The need to teach our children to think logically” (February 5, 2022)
7. When What’s Meant Isn’t Exactly What’s Said: “The Nature of True Idioms” (February 5, 2022)
8. Language Humor at Its Finest Retrospective: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2022)
9. Advice and Dissent: ““The need for genuine leisure instead of a mad, unending pursuit of wealth” (February 7, 2022)
10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 5, 2022)
11. Getting To Know English Better: “Simpler alternatives for the subjunctive - Part 4” (February 5, 2022)
12. Rendezvous with “Pun-ography”: “34 rollicking wordplays to perk up your day” (Febuary 2, 2022)
13. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 3” (February 5, 2022)
14. Students’ Sounding Board: “Some undesirable things about legal writing” (February 10, 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” (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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