PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 1 - 7, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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 – Part 7” (May 6, 2021)
2. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Getting reacquainted with the conjunctive adverbs” (May 4, 2021)
3. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – I” (May 3, 2021)
4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Ferreting out truth and falsehood from the flood of propaganda” (May 3, 2021)
5. A World Without English: “A cautionary tale of a man’s deep aversion to change” (May 4, 2021)
6. You Asked Me This Question: “What the origin of the word ‘gaslighting’ is and other questions” (May 1, 2021)
7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “When the joy of the task becomes the strongest motivation to do it” (May 6, 2021)
8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (May 1, 2021)
9. Retrospective on Matters of Consistency: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (May 3, 2021)
10. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Don’t get caught using wrong double negatives!”” (May 1, 2021)
11. You Asked Me This Question: “Is there an English word for ‘malasakit’?” (May 6, 2021)
12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which construction is correct: ‘My brother and I…’ or ‘I and my brother…’?” (May 1, 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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