PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 1 - 7, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (April 6, 2023)
2. You Asked Me This Question: "Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives" (April 6, 2023) 
3. The Forum Lounge: "Young novelist on ‘The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer’” (April 6, 2023) 
4. Getting To Know English Better: “How ‘even though’ and ‘even if’' differ in sense” (April 4, 2023)
5. Reacquainting Ourselves with the English Modals: “Why Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (April 2, 2023)
6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2023) 
7. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 4, 2023) 
8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (April 6, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: "21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal relations" (April 5, 2023) 
10. Use and Misuse: "Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations" (April 6, 2023) 
11. Essays by Jose Carillo: "When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement" (April 3, 2023)
12. A Meditation You May Want to Share Right Now: Louie Schwartzberg's TED presentation on “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (April 4, 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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