Playlist Update (June 24 - 30, 2023) for the Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATES, JUNE 24 - 30, 2023 OF THE FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

Simply click the web links to the 16 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings from the same weekly period in June of previous years:

1. Getting To Know English Better: “Too much negation and its dangers”




2. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms”   




3. Essays by Joe Carillo: “Avoiding the embarrassing pitfall of misusing certain English words”




4. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The perils of sweeping generalizations”




5. Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with”




6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of‘ ‘than’ and ‘than that of’"




7. Advice and Dissent: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths”




8. Time Out From English Grammar: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States”   


9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times”
   


10. Tricky Aspect of Reported Speech: “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule”   




11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis”   




12. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “How the numerals 0 - 9 got their shapes”



13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Three eye-opening science readings to fight irrationality”




14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths”   



15. Going Back to Grammar Basics: “A noun modified by ‘respective’ should always be plural in form”



16. Getting To Know English Better: “Using euphemism to cushion the blow of request rejections”




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