Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 21, 2019, 06:38:18 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 15 - 21, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use full infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds - 1” (June 20, 2019) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7984.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Mastering the fine art of negation in English” (June 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6342.0)
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3. A Forum Lounge Encore: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (June 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1365.0)
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4. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Elliptical sentences often read and sound better than regular sentences” (June 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=729.0)
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5. Notable Works By Our Very Own--A Retrospective: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one” (June 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=524.0)
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6. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “It’s time for the Filipino to make himself truly globally competitive” (June 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3161.0)
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7. On the Eve of His 158th Birth Anniversary: “A Retrospective on Most Everything About Jose P. Rizal” (June 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7983.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentences” (June 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7599.0)
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9. A Historical Literary Curiosity You Might Have Missed: “When a novel gets published, expect some bruised egos” (June 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1185.0)
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10. The Wisdom of Having a Standard Lexicon: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (June 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6930.0)
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11. The Finest in Language Humor: “250 Guileless Questions That Can Make You Go ‘Hmmm…’” (June 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1186.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
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2. 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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3. 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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4. “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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5. 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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6. “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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7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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8. “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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9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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