PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 20 - 26, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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. Advice and Dissent: “Gemma Cruz Araneta’s commentary on the history book ‘An Island They Called Mazaua’” (February 26, 2021)
2. Getting to Know English Better: “Avoiding improper uses of the conjunction ‘as’” (February 25, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “It’s not good to strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (February 26, 2021)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When saying it once isn't enough” (February 26, 2021)
5. A Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Can bad sex in literary fiction be just as enlightening as good ones?” (February 26, 2020)
6. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: “Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2021)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2021)
8. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “Logic and language” (February 24, 2021)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “32 words of wisdom with a humorous touch” (February 24, 2021)
10. Advice and Dissent—Urgent Retrospective: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (February 24, 2021)
11. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (February 23, 2021 )
12. Refresher on the Basics of Expository Devices: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (February 23, 2021)
13. You Asked Me This Question: “An encounter with an elliptical sentence (A syntax query)” (February 23, 2021)
14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When a tremendously popular song legitimizes a grammatical atrocity” (February 22, 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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