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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR OCTOBER 12 - 18, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAYSimply 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 Better: “Repeated action and sequence words that provide prompt emphasis” 
SOME REFERENCE WORD DEVICES THAT PROVIDE STRONGER
COHESION AND PROMPT EMPHASIS TO A STATEMENT2. Use and Misuse: “As If" and "as though"--Is there a difference?” 
3. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Deconstructing and understanding those puzzling elliptical sentences” 
4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “There’s more than meets the eye in media’s odd use of ‘concerning‘” 
5. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regard’ idioms” 
6. You Asked Me This Question: “Can ‘between’ be used for more than two subjects” 
IF YOU ARE THAT APPLE, YOU’RE DEFINITELY “BETWEEN” AND NOT “AMONG” THOSE TWO CUBES7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Why is the letter ‘I’ always capitalized?” 
8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “An ear for writing in English,” a personal essay by Forum Member Miss Mae (pseud.) 
Read related article: “What?! 6 Authors You Didn’t Know Were Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing”
9. Language Humor at its Finest:: "24 boggling imponderables to think through”
10. Advice and Dissent: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing”
11. Readings in Language: “In self-defense, we must see through deliberately devious English jargon,” a review by Ron Charles in WashingtonPost.com of Spinglish, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf's dictionary of deliberately deceptive English
12. Time Out From English Grammar: “The thief who stole 106 priceless timepieces from a Jerusalem museum,” a review by award-winning book author Fern Reiss of the chronicles about the audacious 1983 heist
13. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “An urgent call to arrest a decline in English proficiency among Filipino workers”
14. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need for logical thinking in our everyday life”
15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination,“ laments NewYorker.com staffwriter Julian Lucas in a long personal essay
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