Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 08, 2019, 09:24:04 AM
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For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 2 - 8, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Exercising caution in asserting what’s good or bad English” (March 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7878.0)
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2. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6176.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Postscript to and my take on the Forum Grammar Joust” (March 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7877.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7452.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest: “33 Plays Wyth Wurds Plus 33 Philosophies of Hypocrisy and Ambiguity” (March 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7874.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Better: “A quick review in choosing and using modifiers” (March 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7450.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than a minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0)
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9. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6824.0)
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10. Refresher in Basic English Usage: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6823.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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2. 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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3. “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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4. 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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5. “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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6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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7. “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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8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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9. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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