PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 13 - 19, 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: “Dealing with problematic pronoun usage- 1” (May 18, 2023)
2. Back to the Basics in Combining Sentences: “‘Which,’ ‘that,’ ‘who’ and other grammar pitfalls” (May 17, 2023)
3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 17, 2023)
4. The Forum Lounge: “Destigmatizing the century-old seasoning known as MSG” (May 18, 2023)
5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Extreme liberties in media’s use of the word ‘presumptive’” (May 17, 2023) 
6. Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2023)
7. Getting To Know English Better: “Beware that mass nouns are distinct from collective nouns” (May 17, 2023) 
8. Essay by Jose Carillo: “Do better than a calculated guess in handling conditional sentences” (May 18, 2023) 
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Snarky translations of 20 common scientific research phrases” (May 13, 2023) 
10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Distinguishing between main verbs, auxiliary verbs, and linking verbs” (May 18, 2023) 
11. Your Thoughts Exactly: Fred Natividad's “Medjugorie, Here They Come” (May 18, 2023) 
12. A Forum Lounge Regrospective: “Women…as explained by engineers” (May 18, 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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