Author Topic: Playlist Update (July 15 - 21, 2023) for the Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 4121 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** July 20, 2023, 07:33:21 PM »

PLAYLIST UPDATES, JULY 15 - 21, 2023 OF THE FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings from the same weekly period in July of previous years:

1. Getting To Know English: “The feel of English words”

2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The man who bestowed an orderly taxonomy on the natural world”

An 1833 engraving of Linnaeus in Lapland dress. PHOTO: ALAMY

3. Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers”

4. Going Deeper Into Language “The need for logical thinking in our everyday life”

5. Time Out From English Grammar: “Tapping the immense potential of the Internet to democratize knowledge”

6. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths”

7. A Fascinating English Grammar Basic: “‘That’ and its many grammatical uses”

8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – Part 16”

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates”

10. Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers”

11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter”

12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How the three kinds of objects work in English”

13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “With this tome, few foreign thoughts and ideas need be lost in translation”