PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 26 - December 2, 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 Write English Better: “Making effective paragraph transitions – 1” (December 1, 2022)
2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is ‘Philippines’ plural and what is its possessive form?” (November 28, 2022 )
3. Use and Misuse: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2022)
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two instructive cases of English misuse and suspected misuse” (November 26, 2022)
5. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Aspiring writer in storm-ravaged town appeals for help” (November 26, 2022 )
6. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 30, 2022)
7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Showing writers how to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2022)
8. Something A Little Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 26, 2022)
9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (November 31, 2022)
10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know” (November 30, 2022)
11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2022 )
12. Free Yardstick For English Proficiency: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 28, 2022 )
13. Advice and Dissent: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (December 1, 2022)
14. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Just a little bit of history about ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas'" (December 1, 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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