Playlist Updates for June 17 - 23, 2022 and for June 10-16, 2023

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATES, JUNE 17 - 23, 2023 AND JUNE 10-16, 2023, OF THE FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY

June 17 - 23, 2023:
(12 postings)
Simply click the web links to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week and to selected postings from the same weekly period in June of previous years:

1. Getting To Know English Better: “You’ve got to learn the fireside-chat technique”


 

2. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?”




3. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense”




4. Essay by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The power of wordplay”    




5. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A Rizal retrospective on his 164th birth anniversary”    




6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but also a hard-headed businessman”




7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A recovered ancient manuscript changes the course of human thought”    




8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Human genome research casts doubt on Adam and Eve story”   




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “29 more great palindromes for the road”




10. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it advisable to drop 'that' from reported speech?”    




11. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 1”




12. Readings in Language Retrospective: "A style book as 'insurance policy against tangled English syntax”





June 10 - 16, 2023:
(11 postings)
Simply click the web links to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week and to selected postings from the same weekly period in June of previous years:

1. Getting To Know English Better: “‘Irregardless’ and other grammar bugaboos”




2. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the usage of modals”




3. Getting To Know English Better: “The four forms that absolute phrases take”




4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The correct, judicious forms of address in a bureaucracy”




5. Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Lost in Translation - 1 and 2”    




6. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Non-historian explores the heart and soul of the modern Filipino”    




7. A Philippine Independence Day Retrospective: Fred Natividad’s “My Two Love Stories”    




8.  Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “When some educators befuddle”




9. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “When children define science in their own terms”




10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths”    




11. The Forum Lounge:  Andy Rooney's “33 golden nuggets of inspiration”