PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 23 - 29, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
12 new postings, 11 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. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 2” (January 28, 2021)
2. Good English Advocacy Retrospective: “Request for permission to use photos in a 2015 error-riddled Department of Education learning material” (January 25, 2021)
3. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “The mood and attitude of English verbs” (January 29, 2021)
4. Time Out From English Grammar: “A sixth mass extinction in our planet is now unfolding right before our eyes" (January 29, 2021)
5. Getting To Know English Better: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case” (January 29, 2020)
6. Question Foremost in Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (January 26, 2020)
7. Language Humor At its Finest Retrospective: “Wacky Phonetics: 22 English translations into Chinese in 5 minutes or less” (January 29, 2021)
8. Getting To Know English Better: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (January 26, 2020)
9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2021)
10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2021)
11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (January 24, 2021)
12. Essays By Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (January 25, 2021)
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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