PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 3 - 9, 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – 3” (April 8, 2021)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When do we use the past progressive tense?” (April 3, 2021)
3. The Very Basics of Courtesy in English: “The proper use of ‘can’ and ‘may’ as a mark of civility” (April 3, 2021)
4. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 1” (Prepositions of Motion and Location) (April 4, 2021)
5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Avoiding misuse of the conjoiner ‘as well as’ in newspaper reporting” (April 3, 2021)
6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why do Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (Parts 1, 2, 3) (April 2, 2021)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2021)
8. Getting To Know English Better: “How ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ in sense” (April 3, 2021)
9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2021)
10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question: “Which is correct: ‘Happy birthday to myself!’ or ‘Happy birthday to me!’?” (April 3, 2021)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 2, 2021)
13. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 4, 2021)
14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2021)
15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (April 8, 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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