Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 06, 2020, 10:49:55 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 1 - 7, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
20 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. Getting To Know English Lookback: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (August 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7763.0)
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2. How to Punctuate with Finesse: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (August 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7004.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “The virtue of elliptical sentence constructions” (August 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7636.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Are ‘quick perusal’ and ‘careful’ redundant expressions?” (August 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8018.0)
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5. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The English mealtime vocabulary” (August 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7633.0)
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7. Revisionist Look at Alexander the Great: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=322.0)
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8. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Lea Salonga-Josh Groban duet of ‘The Prayer’ in Manila” (August 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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9. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “20 wonderfully described definitions” (August 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5952.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (August 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7631.0)
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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable’” (August 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7508.0)
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12. Language Humor at its Finest: “Three funny short tales about language and perception” (August 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7623.0)
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13. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6996.0)
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14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineer the human brain to make ourselves smarter?” (August 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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15. Getting to Know English Better: “Precisely when is ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (August 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7628.0)
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16. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’” (August 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8017.0)
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17. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Secret Love” (August 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1129.0)
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18. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What is a photocopier?” (August 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7342.0)
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19. Back to the English Grammar Basics: “The four nominative functions of nouns” (August 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6993.0)
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20. Language Humor At Its Finest: “78 fabulous advice from famous people” (August 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1319.0)
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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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