Author Topic: Playlist Update (January 18 - 24, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway (Read 8670 times)

Joe Carillo · « **on:** January 22, 2025, 05:19:42 PM »

PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JANUARY 18 - 24, 2025 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: “Using extraposition for emphasis”

2. Use and Misuse: “A curious encounter about the use of position titles”

3. You Asked Me This Question: “Do we play it by ear whether to use an infinitive or gerund?”

4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A crash course in politically correct English"

5. Getting to Know English: “The problem with ‘Hello!’ and ‘Whatever!’”

6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: “My hunch was right about the usage of ‘between’ and ‘among’”

7. Students’ Sounding Board: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb ‘must’?”

8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Read Between the Lies,” Essay by Antonio Calipjo Go, Forum Contributor

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

10. Time Out from English Grammar: “What the evolution of rove beetles shows about the predictability of life,” Deena Mousa's article “The Evolution of a Mimic” in the January 17, 2025 issue of the Nautilus website

11. Education and Teaching: “Looking back to important discussions on education posted in the Forum in 2009”

12. Readings in Language: “The best languages to speak if you want to influence the world” (2014)

13. Advice and Dissent: “Color doesn’t inhabit the physical world but only exists in the beholder's eyes”

14. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries,” a lively multinational online symposium in the Forum in 2009 following the formal launching of my third book, Give Your English the Winning Edge