PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 21 - 27, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH 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 published in the Forum in previous years:
1. Getting to Know English: “Three semantic brides all in a row” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9208.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “How does the meaning of ‘I'd ask of you’ differ with ‘I'd ask you’?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0)
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3. Readings in Language: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6345.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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5. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Obasute: A reflection this Christmas,” by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6377.0)
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6. Your Thoughts Exactly: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past - Redux 15” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7788.0)
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7. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A beauty and a love verboten” by Angel B. Casillan, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2177.0)
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8. Time Out From English Grammar: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5931.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6570.0)
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10. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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11. Students’ Sounding Board: “Why is the letter ‘I’ always capitalized?” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6438.0)
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12. Advice and Dissent: “Is ‘the algorithm’ really a powerful meta-specter haunting our hauntings?” by Anna Shechtman in the Yale Review (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8983.0)
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13. The Forum Lounge: “A wheelchair dancer lives up her dream,” a travel recollection by Forum Member Tonybau (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6267.0)
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14. The Forum Lounge: “Things my mother taught me,” contributed by Forum Member Ben Sanchez (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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15. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Celebrating the Holiday Season with an element of surprise” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1115.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9206.0)
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