Playlist Update (August 17 - 23, 2024) Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR AUGUST 17 - 23, 2024 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. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “The perils of using back-formations”




2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Some expert opinions on the usage of ‘contiguous’ and ‘continuous’”

 

3. You Asked Me This Question: “Getting used to common English colloquialisms”




4. Getting To Know English Better: “Never allow ‘only’ to go haywire!”



                     
5. Essay by Jose Carillo: “Dealing with various levels of of intransitivity” (A personal retrospective)


                       

6. Students’ Sounding Board: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage”

               
   


7. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Some tangled tropes that annoy me," personal essay by Isabel Escoda, Forum member




8. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “The quiet, little pleasures of reading Bienvenido Santos,” personal retrospective by Jose A. Carillo


 

9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history”


“Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.”


10. Advice and Dissent: “A descriptivist’s grand tour of how languages work”

 


11. Readings in Language: “Reading literary fiction can make us better thinkers, research shows”  




12. Time Out From English Grammar: “The high cost of granting computers dominion over our work and leisure”




13. The Forum Lounge: An open dialogue on "Religions and the Basis for Faith”




14. Readings in Language: "Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis”




15. The Forum Lounge: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart”

   
             

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