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Playlist Update (January 25 - 31, 2025) of Jose Carillo Forum's Facebook Gateway

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PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR JANUARY 25 - 31, 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: “The virtue of elliptical constructions”




2. Students’ Sounding Board: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense”



 
3. You Asked Me This Question: “What is the origin of the word ‘gaslighting’ and other questions”

 


4. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles getting out of hand”


 

5. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “When it is desirable to position adjectives postpositively”




6. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion”




7. Use and Misuse: “Backshifting rule on relative clause”




8. Your Thoughts Exactly: “Mind Matters!”, personal reflections by Melvin (pseud.), Forum Member




9. Language Humor at its Finest: “19 things it took me 50 years to learn by U.S. columnist Dave Barry”  




10. Time Out from English Grammar: “The high cost of granting computers dominion over our work and leisure,” a 2014 review of Nicolas Carr's book The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us in the Boston Globe website




11. Advocacies: “Plain Language, Plain English, Clear Writing for the Philippines,” a retrospective to Forum Contributor Gerry T. Galacio's series of Forum postings in 2017
 

12. Education and Teaching: “Philippine Congress approves proposed Education Pathways Act”


13. Going Deeper Into Language: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics”




14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “A descriptivist’s grand tour of how languages work,” a review of David Crystal's 2005 book How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die




15. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Why the Arabic numbers look the way they do,” an interesting factoid and audio-visual presentation shared by Forum Contributor Frank A. Tucker




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