Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 29, 2020, 07:25:55 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 23 - 29, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings, 10 classic postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Why it’s easier to speak fluently in English than to write well in English” (May 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6840.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6910.0)
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3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7566.0)
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4. Language Humor at its Finest: “A Great Stand-up Comic’s Thoughts About Life and Sundry Things” (May 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1507.0)
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5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap” (May 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6409.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: Gerry T. Galacio's “Unequal Englishes, Wronging English, Elitist English, Standard Philippine English” (May 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7564.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7563.0)
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8. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6522.0)
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9. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio's “Failing in bar exams is due to poor grammar and deficient writing skills” (May 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8200.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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11. Again, Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6907.0)
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12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7560.0)
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13. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” May 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=869.0)
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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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