PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 13 - 19, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
15 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. Getting to Know English: “When can history be told in the present tense?” (February 18, 2021)
2. Time Out From English Grammar: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a ruthless businessman” (February 20, 2021)
3. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2021)
4. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 16, 2021)
5. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 famous thoughts by astute minds” (February 17, 2020)
6. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 18, 2021)
7. Use and Misuse of English (3rd of 3-part series): “Strategies for avoiding repetition and abstruse stock phrases – III” (February 16, 2021)
8. Making Light of What We Do for a Living: “60 really amusing job descriptions” (February 16, 2021)
9. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (February 15, 2021)
10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (February 15, 2021)
11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “25 English language oddities” (February 14, 2021 )
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel B. Casillan’s “A Beauty and a Love Verboten” (February 13, 2021)
13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words” (February 12, 2021)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 12, 2021)
15. Encore Just For The Day of Hearts! “A dozen romantic rhymes with unromantic twists” (February 14, 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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