PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 14 - 20, 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. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 1” (August 26, 2021)
2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 2021)
3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 23, 2021)
4. Getting to Know English Better: “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive” (August 23, 2021)
5. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Current private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (August 23, 2021)
6. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (August 24, 2021)
7. Just a Little Retrospective for Birthdays: “No need to hold 'celebrant' in a straightjacket” (August 24, 2021)
8. My Post-Birthday Retrospective: “Redux: A special 2016 year-end folio of my essays” (August 25, 2021)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Not for the tongue-tied: Tagalog tongue-twisters just this once” (August 25, 2021)
10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2021)
11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (August 21, 2021)
12. Media English Watch Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?" (August 21, 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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