Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 20, 2020, 10:49:27 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 14 - 20, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8164.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7891.0)
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3. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6045.0)
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4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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5. A Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Don't third conditionals backshift in reported speech?” (March 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7471.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Cracking the human resource code and other workplace mantras” (March 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7887.0)
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8. Refresher on the Grammar of Comparatives: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (March 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6837.0)
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9. Taking Up Again Some Interesting Grammar Basics: “Of numbers and numerals and the usage of ‘will’ and ‘would’” (March 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6836.0)
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10. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent: “Dead Sea Scroll fragments acquired by U.S. Bible museum are forgeries” (March 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8163.0)
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12. My Thoughts Exactly: Antonio Calipjo Go's Essay “Bridges” (March 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8162.0)
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13. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6835.0)
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14. Getting To Know English Better: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7466.0)
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15. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “What does it mean to be asked ‘Are you understanding me?’?” (March 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6831.0)
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16. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Precisely determining what ‘determiners’ are” (March 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6282.0)
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17. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don’t be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=927.0)
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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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