Playlist Update (March 8 -14, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 8 -14, 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: “Better ways of handling equative constructions”




2. Use and Misuse: “Some expert opinions on the usage of ‘contiguous’ and ‘continuous.’” Four leading English-usage columnists and professors in the U.S. shared with the Forum their thoughts on the subject [/b]




3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “A noun modified by ‘respective’ should always be plural in form!”

 


4. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary”


         

5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media”




6. Getting to Know English: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English”




7. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Teaching our children to think logically”




8. Students’ Sounding Board: “Distinguishing noun clauses from adjective clauses and adverb clauses”





9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception”  



 

10. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Friendships chiseled so deeply in our mind,” a personal essay by Forum Contributor Angel B. Casillan




11. Advice and Dissent: Retrospective: “Is ‘the Algorithm’ really a powerful meta-specter haunting our hauntings?” a Los Angeles Review of Books editor-at-large acerbically argues that there’s no such thing as that widely touted mantra that turns teenagers into creators and millionaires into billionaires




12. Time Out from English Grammar: “Thomas Edison’s greatest idea ‘wasn’t something anybody could patent or touch,’” says Derek Thompson in his book review of Edmund Morris’s 2019 biography of the famous American inventor




13. Notable Works by Our Very Own (Retrospective): “Fil-Am blogger thrives on her uncommon freedom to negotiate the web,” benchmarks for success in North American media set by writer-editor in her early 30s who was born in Canada to parents from the Philippines




14. Readings in Language: “Anne Helen Petersen's theory of the modern exclamation point,” her 2024 “Doing the Work of Tone” essay in her Substack.com website




15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A bold embodiment of what’s grand or fraudulent in American mass culture,” the review by Charles Baxter in Lapham’s Quarterly of the autobiography of 19th century showman and circus impresario Phineas T. Barnum

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