Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 03, 2020, 02:31:53 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 27 - JULY 3, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. You Asked Me This Question: “The pronoun ‘what’ isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertion” (July 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8239.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6944.0)
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3. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=52.0)
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4. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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5. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting obsessed over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6137.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/notable-punctuation-uses&users-1A1.png)
6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “‘18 years old and above’ or ‘18 years old and older’?” (July 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7989.0)
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7. Getting to Know the Tenses Better: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (July 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6942.0)
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8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (June 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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9. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-Ups That Bungle What We Mean” (June 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why is it easier for learners to speak English than write it?” (June 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6029.0)
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11. Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (June 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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13. Education and Teaching: Antonio Calipjo Go’s "Digital Learning Plan in Generating and Curating Content for Flexible Learning” (June 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8238.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/image_calipjo-go_lessonplan-1A.png)
14. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Using euphemism to cushion the blow of request rejections” (June 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7604.0)
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15. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “13 + 1 Key Differences Between Men and Women” (June 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1753.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/men-and-women_marriage-prospects-1A1.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/clifford&umbrella-girl_composite-1M2.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PopeJohnPaul_Manila-5D.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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