PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 11 - 17, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 11 classic posts:
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:1. Getting To Know English Better: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (March 16, 2023)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “What to do when a simple indicative sentence just can’t make your point” (March 12, 2023) 3. Advice and Dissent: “Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for you?” (March 11, 2023) 
4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2023) 
5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (March 14, 2023) 
6. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one” (March 5, 2023) 
7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 2023) 
8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Making sense of abstruse legalese” (March 11, 2023)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 business jokes and quotes to perk up our dreary days” (March 16, 2023) 
10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2023)
11. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Distress over alarmist TV reporting about Mayon Volcano’s 2009 eruption” (March 15, 2023)
12. Just a Fleeting Look at History: “Truer, flesh-and-blood portraits of Borgia, Machiavelli, and Da Vinci” (March 11, 2023) 
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (March 14, 2023) 
14. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Can a sentence have two subordinate clauses in a row?” (March 14, 2023) 
15. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “A student’s travails in modular distance learning” (March 11, 2023) 
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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