Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 31, 2020, 08:41:26 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 25- 31, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. Getting to Know English Much Better: “The maverick behavior of verbs in the subjunctive” (January 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7769.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Wacky Phonetics: 22 English translations into Chinese in 5 minutes or less” (January 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6127.0)
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3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoidance of confusing fused or run-on sentences” (January 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7397.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why do we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue?” (January 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A sixth mass extinction in our planet is now unfolding right before our eyes” (January 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6151.0)
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6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent science news” (January 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6569.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “The perils of missing periods or forgetting commas” (January 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6478.0)
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8. Priming Up Retrospective For Valentine’s Day: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ enters the French lexicon” (January 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5976.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “Three very interesting questions by new Forum member, answered at long last!” (January 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7837.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Better: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (January 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7393.0)
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11. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “When a modifier squints, the dead could die again and again” (January 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=278.0)
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12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (January 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0)
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14. Time Out from Grammar: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (January 25, 2020) (http://tinyurl.com/nkd9np5)
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15. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6774.0)
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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”[/size] (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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