A Retrospective of 12 English Usage Essays from the Forum's Earliest Years

[Joe Carillo]

July 17,2024

Dear Forum Member and Friend,

As a 2024 midyear retrospective, Jose Carillo's English Forum is presenting a selection of 12 English usage it featured during its first five years (2003-2008).

Most of these early essays focus on the general aspects and use or misuse of English as one of the world's major languages. The rest of the over 2,300 essays presented in the Forum from 2003 onwards take up the elements of English as a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary through which people convey meaning both in spoken and written forms.



The essays in the selection are as follows:

1 - The Misuses of Language
2 - The Language of Science and Literature
3 - The Grammar of Manners
4 - The Battle for Our Minds
5 - The Wisdom of Lewis Carroll
6 - The State of Our English
7 - Giving Justice to Tolkien
8 - In Defense of the Web
9 - When Wordplay Goes Overboard
10 -The Days of Our Lives
11 -Don’t Worry About English Slang!
12 -A Great Accent Alone Isn't Great English

You can directly access and read the 12 essays by simply clicking their respective links to the Forum above. Until further notice, you can also directly access the 12 essays by clicking this link to the Jose Carillo Forum homepage: https://josecarilloforum.com/

With my best wishes,
Joe Carillo