Playlist Update (March 29 - April 4, 2025) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 29 - April 4, 2025 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: “Simpler alternatives for the subjunctive”





2. My Media English Watch Lookback: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage”




3. Use and Misuse: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English”




4. You Asked Me This Question: “Is the usage of the adverb ‘overly’ anomalous English?”


 

5. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?”




6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The germ of a great idea remembered”




7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Our days are as the days of flowers,” personal reflections by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor




8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Dropping the introductory word ‘that’ in indirect speech”




9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Student and school life miscellany”  





10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Things you might do if you’ve already mastered your English”




11. Readings in Language: “29 best-selling fiction writers share their secrets to success”




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts”




13. Readings in Language: “Max Norman analyzes ChatGPT’s ‘metafiction’: Pastiche in the age of automation”




14. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A trip down memory lane.” A Filipina shared through the Forum a chain letter in 2009 about ‘real life’ in the Philippines, formally putting it in memo form addressed to ‘All the kids who were born in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s’





15. The Forum Lounge:“Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” A U.S.-based woman with Filipino roots shares a no-holds-barred collection of circa 2011 impressions of her homeland

Click this link to earlier Playdate features

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