Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 21, 2018, 09:34:23 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (September 20, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7692.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Dangers of Overstatement” (September 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7693.0)
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3. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: Teaching our children to think logically” (September 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7108.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Words don’t come easy” (September 20, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7691.0)
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5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A recurrent glaring grammar error on cable news TV” (September 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=380.0)
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6. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (September 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7103.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (September 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
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8. Just In Case You Didn’t Know Yet: “What happens when people don’t know enough to know they don’t know” (September 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2622.0)
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9. Getting To Know English: “When a word can either be a noun or an adjective” (September 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7101.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The heavy price of misplacing one’s trust and confidence” (September 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=621.0)
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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations” (September 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7098.0)
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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So Stuttgart is the world’s least stressful city, and Manila the 10th most stressful?” (September 16, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7095.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is the usage of the adverb ‘overly’ anomalous English?” (September 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=473.0)
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14. Basic But Rather Tough Grammar Puzzler: “The difference between nouns preceded by the article ‘a’ and by ‘the’” (September 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7074.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
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2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
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3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
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4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6628.0)
(Posted July 11, 2016)
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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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