Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 18, 2020, 09:22:48 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 11 - 17, 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Do I ask ‘Have you had a look at the documents?’ or ‘Did you have a look at the documents?’?” (April 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8183.0)
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2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Advice from a noted scientist to aspiring young scientists” (April 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5931.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Prepositions at work in literal prepositional phrases” (April 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7925.0)
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4. Essays by Jose Carillo: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (April 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6200.0)
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5. My Thoughts Exactly: Tonybau’s “Lockdown: Before and After” (April 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8184.0)
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6. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (April 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2495.0)
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8. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6325.0)
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9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable!’” (April 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7508.0)
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10. Time Out From Grammar: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4123.0)
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11. Getting to Know English: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7505.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 3 (Prepositions of time and duration)” (April 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7917.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Holy Week: Simply a Matter of Faith” (April 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8182.0)
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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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