PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 12 - 18, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings, 10 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: “What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech – 1” (December 17, 2020)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (December 16, 2020)
3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 11, 2020)
4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (December 17, 2020)
5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Andy Rooney’s “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (December 16, 2020)
6. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (December 15, 2020)
7. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses” (November 29, 2020)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Historical, Literary, and Eternal Present” (December 15, 2020)
9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A little bit of history about ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’” (December 14, 2020)
10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2020)
11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What to do when the subject is a very long noun form” (December 13, 2020)
12. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 memorably thoughtful and mischievous quotes” (December 7, 2020)
13. Getting To Know English Better “The seven uses of noun clauses” (December 14, 2020)
14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The differences in sense when ‘will’ or ‘would’ is used” (December 13, 2020)
15. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How onerous legalese imperils public welfare” (December 13, 2020)
16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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