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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Using demonstrative reference words”




2. You Asked Me This Question: “Play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund”




3. Students’ Sounding Board: “Did our national hero Jose Rizal ever speak and write in English?"




4. My Media English Watch Retrospective:  “A case of grammar déjà vu (that's French, of course, for ‘a feeling that one has seen or heard something like it before‘)”




5. Getting To Really Know English: “The six basic logical relationships in English”


       

6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “A father's letter to his son's teacher”--it sounded too well-written I couldn't resist checking it out




7. Time Out From English Grammar: “Two poetry readings for All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day




8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Is it true that we're just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?”

     
         

 9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times”



10. Education and Teaching: “The language of literature and science,” personal reminiscence by Jose A. Carillo




11. Readings in Language: “English will most likely be without that gender-neutral pronoun forever,” American linguist and political commentator John McWhorter argues in his 2014 article for The New Republic


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12. Time Out From English Grammar: “European female frogs play dead to avoid unwanted sexual advances”




13. The Forum Lounge: “The century-old seasoning known as MSG is getting destigmatized”  




14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Should the law and lawyers casually say ‘plea of guilty’ and ‘plea of innocent’?”




15. The Forum Lounge: “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” by the late U.S. radio-TV writer Andy Rooney as shared with us in 2011 by Forum Member Justine Aragones and illustrated by the Forum inthe Philippine local context






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