PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 12 - 18, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Getting used to common English colloquialisms” (February 17, 2022)
2. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2018)
3. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” February 15, 2022
4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (February 15, 2022)
5. Getting to Know English Better: “Appositives for more engaging writing” (February 13, 2022)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words” (February 12, 2022)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: "40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times" (February 18, 2022)
8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel B. Casillan’s “A Beauty and a Love Verboten” (February 13, 2022)
9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Research shows responsibility resides in how people interact, not in the brain” (February 13, 2022)
10. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The use of ‘cuddling the enemy’ and other English malapropisms“ (February 13, 2022)
11. Special Retrospective for Valentines's Day 2022: “Shirley Bassey, Glenn Close, and Elaine Page sing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ’With One Look’“ (February 14, 2022)
12. Readings in Language: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (Febuary 15, 2022)
13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap” (February 18, 2022)
14. Language Humor at its Finest: “25 English language oddities” (February 14, 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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