PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 2 - 8, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Going back not only to the future perfect” (October 7, 2021)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrosepective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (October 5, 2021)
3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A grammatically doubtful report about a drug mule’s execution” (October 6, 2021)
4. Readings in Langage Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense”” (October 6, 2021)
5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a hard-headed businessman” (October 7, 2021)
6. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 6, 2021)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “30 Funny English Signs from All Over the World” (October 2, 2021)
8. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘mine’ functions as pronoun, adjective, or determiner” (October 2, 2021)
9. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers”” (October 1, 2021)
10. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book” (October. 7, 2021)
11. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “‘Scoring’ with a mate can be so sordid and wasteful but necessary” (October. 7, 2021)
12. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Waltzing on the Web: A Retrospective” (October 6, 2021)
13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “People’s names form a veritable catalogue of very ancient ghosts” (October 5, 2021)
14. Going Deeper Into English: “The nature of true English idioms” (October 5, 2021)
15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (October 3, 2021)
16. Getting to Know English Better: “The many senses of ‘while’ elude not just a few” (October 3, 2021)
17. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Filipinos” (October 3, 2021)
18. Humor in Mixed Tongues Retrospective: Fred Natividad's “Medjugorie, Here They Come!’” (October 2, 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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