PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 8 - 14, 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: “The noun-to-verb conversion syndrome” (April 13, 2023)
2. Readings in Language: “A review of Ed Simon’s ‘Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence’ in online LitHub.com” (April 13, 2023)
3. You Asked Me This Question: “Mastery of the connectives can make us write and speak much better” (April 9, 2023) 
4. The Forum Lounge: “Using the right tense for reported speech” (April 9, 2023) 
5. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2023) 
6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (April 8, 2023)
7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Plural form of ‘thank you’ when used as a noun” (April 8, 2023)
8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” in the Forum now! (April 13, 2023)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: "A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (April 12, 2023) 
10. Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “My salad days, ” “the whole nine yards, ” and other idioms (April 11, 2023) 
11. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 11, 2023) 
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 11, 2023) 
13. Getting To Know English Better: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2023) 
14.Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Tough questions about sentence structure and pronoun usage” (April 8, 2023) 
15. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (April 8, 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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