PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 19 - 25, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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. Getting To Know English Better: “The perils of sweeping generalizations” (November 24, 2022)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English-language conundrum (or ‘In how many ways can you skin a cat?’)” (November 21, 2022 )
3. You Asked Me This Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (November 20, 2022)
4. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: "{Conditional sentences that don’t use ‘if’” (November 19, 2022 )
5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking more closely at our dictionaries” (November 21, 2022 )
6. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (November 19, 2022)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those bits of journalistic nonsense” (November 19, 2022)
8. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Nakakagigil remains lost in English translation” (November 22, 2022)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings” (November 24, 2022)
10. Reading For Aspiring Writers in English: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (November 22, 2022 )
11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2022 )
12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (November 22, 2022 )
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Caution in times of reasonable doubt” (November 24, 2022)
14. Not Really A Joke But Serious Business: “Check how intelligent you really are” (November 21, 2022)
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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