PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 20 - 26, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – 1” (March 25, 2021)
2. Getting To Know English: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 23, 2021)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Puzzling over the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2021)
4. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 23, 2021)
5. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2021)
6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 23, 2021)
7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (March 24, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2021)
9. A Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2021)
10. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2021)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 24, 2021)
12. English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2021)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 23, 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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