Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 06, 2020, 07:19:29 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 6, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 Better: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 3” (March 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8157.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “When English isn’t the English that we know” (March 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7452.0)
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3. Away With Those Awful, Irritating Phrases!: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (March 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Question within a question” (March 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1588.0)
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5. Language Humor at its Finest: “33 Plays Wyth Wurds Plus 33 Philosophies of Hypocrisy and Ambiguity” (March 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7874.0)
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6. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “A quick review in the use or non-use of modifiers” (March 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7450.0)
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7. Readings in Language: “Style as pleasurable mastery rather than a minefield of grievous errors” (March 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0)
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8. Use and Misuse: “Wordsmithing verbs of destruction in English” (March 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6824.0)
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9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her’” (March 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6317.0)
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10. Basic English Usage Refresher: “Getting the hang of tricky contracted tag questions” (March 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6823.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (March 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Better: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7446.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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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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