PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 27 - April 2, 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 – 2” (April 1, 2021)
2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Dealing decisively with the ‘who’ vs. ‘whom’ conundrum” (April 1, 2021)
3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The grammar of English conditional sentences” (March 30, 2021)
4. Prickly Problem With An Idiomatic Phrase “‘With regard to,’ ‘with regards to,’ or ‘as regards to’” (March 31, 2021)
5. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “Is it time to kill off the grand idea of Richard Dawkins’ ‘Selfish Gene’? (March 31, 2021)
6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to use ‘to have been’ and ‘having been’” (March 30, 2021)
7. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (March 30, 2021)
8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “When children define science in their own terms” (March 29, 2021)
9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (March 30, 2021)
10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (March 31, 2021)
11. Time Out From English Grammar: “Oh, the sweet bird of happiness finally looks like it’s in the bag!” (March 31, 2021)
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (March 31, 2021)
13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “23 stunning, magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (March 29, 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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