PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR OCTOBER 14 - 20, 2023 OF THE FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY
Simply click the web links to the 14 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:
1. Getting To Know English Better: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8905.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8305.0)
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3. Education and Teaching: “The language of literature and science” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7644.0)
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4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Using the wrong words or just too many words for comfort” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is the expression ‘feet of clay’ considered as an idiom?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7244.0)
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6. Your Thoughts Exactly: “A stone so heavy but with strong desire to float” by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8388.0)
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7. Advice and Dissent: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=553.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Getting finicky over punctuation might just prove worth your effort” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6137.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7623.0)
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10. The Forum Lounge: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A curious encounter about the use of position titles” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8268.0)
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12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “In defense of using ‘Greetings!' at the start of a letter” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7383.0)
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13. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to identify and correct the error in a test sentence” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6224.0)
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14. Time Out From English Grammar: “Three eye-opening science readings to fight irrationality” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6015.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8902.0)
Visit Jose Carillo's Blogspot on the English Language (https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/)