Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 14, 2020, 09:00:45 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 8 - 14, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
19 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 Better: “When we must use the passive voice for clarity’s sake” (August 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8255.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (August 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8026.0)
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3. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.0)
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4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Indignities in American minor” (August 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
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5. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=859.0)
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6. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7018.0)
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7. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (August 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7644.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1330.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic (for good or ill)” (August 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8024.0)
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10. Retrospective to a Forum Lounge Classic: Andy Rooney's “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (August 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1564.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (August 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=509.0)
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12. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 10, 2020)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7013.0)
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13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 mind-boggling imponderables to think through” (August 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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14. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1” (August 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7011.0)
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15. Getting to Know English: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (August 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7009.0)
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16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7637.0)
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17. Getting to Know The Tenses Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7638.0)
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18. Why Some of Us are Saints, Heels, or Psychopaths: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (August 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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19. The Forum Lounge: Gerry T. Galacio’s “The quiz boys of the 1970s and early 1980s” (August 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8254.0)
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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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