Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 22, 2019, 08:48:41 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 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: “The ‘who’/‘whom’ grammar conundrum revisited” (November 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8099.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “An English-language conundrum (or ‘In how many ways can you skin a cat?’)” (November 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=381.0)
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3. Forum Lounge: “‘Nakakagigil’ remains lost in English translation” (November 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=78.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=624.0)
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5. Language Humor At Its Finest: “50 puns about crime and lawbreakers” (November 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1348.0)
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6. Not Really A Joke But Serious Business: “Free, honest-to-goodness self-administered intelligence test” (November 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6489.0)
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7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Forum discussion on “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (November 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
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8. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “Poem’s antedating by 230 years puts its noble thoughts in jeopardy” (November 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0)
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9. Parenting Letter Retrospective: “Dear Mama and Papa” (November 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6219.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Looking More Closely at Our Dictionaries” (November 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3.0)
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11. A Reading You Might Have Missed: “What’s deemed as proper English really only a matter of fashion” (November 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2575.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (November 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7229.0)
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13. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles got out of hand” (November 19, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6729.0)
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14. Readings in Language: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (November 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Your handling of numbers and time reflects the clarity of your thinking” (November 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=674.0)
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16. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (November 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1365.0)
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17. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The mangling of idiomatic expressions” (November 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7225.0)
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18. You Asked Me This Question: “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (November 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7768.0)
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19. Essays by Jose Carillo: “What to do when a simple indicative sentence just can’t make your point” (November 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6012.0)
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20. For More Readable, More Engaging English: “Harnessing parallelism for structural balance” (November 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7222.0)
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21. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Rediscovering John Galsworthy” (November 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6727.0)
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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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