Playlist Update (Sept 28 - Oct 4, 2024) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

[Joe Carillo]

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 4, 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 world in 854 words”


For all his ingenuity and imagination, the Greek mathematician-physicist Archimedes
obviously exceeded his mind’s grasp when he bragged that he could lift the world
with a plank.


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




3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in our domestic print media”

                       


4. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The need to be grammatically correct in our English”


                 


5. Getting to Know English Better: “Is your ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?”




6. You Asked Me This Question: “When notional agreement overrides grammatical agreement”




7. Use and Misuse: “Techniques for gender-free or gender-neutral writing” by Gerry T. Galacio, Forum Member and Contributor




8. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Learning to Reinvent Ourselves: How to Make the Philippines a Winner in the 21st Century” by Romeo O. Encarnacion, Fil-Am HR and business development consultant



9. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 business jokes and quotes to perkup up our dreary days”



 

10. Time Out From English Grammar: “The psychometric test that promised to be an ‘X-ray to the soul’”




11. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin,” essay by Jose A.Carillo with an insightful response by Forum Contributor Tonybau  




12. Going Deeper Into Language: “The perils of sweeping generalizations”




13. The Forum Lounge: “AI and sustainability challenges to be taken up at StratMark Marketing Confab in Manila this coming October 8”




14. Education and Teaching: “ASEAN TeachingEnglish Online Conference this coming Oct.10-30 to challenge traditional teaching paradigms”




15. Advice and Dissent: “‘Sugrophobia’ is a veritable epidemic and cultural obsession”

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