Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 25, 2020, 12:53:14 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 19 - 25, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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. Use and Misuse: “A letter from a bereaved German widower” (September 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8270.0)
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2. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Epilogue: Teaching our children to think logically” (September 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7108.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “Can an adjective be used as a subject in a sentence?” (September 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8041.0)
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4. Reflections On How We Reckon With Time: “The days of our lives” (September 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7115.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (September 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7696.0)
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6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (September 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=553.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Five ostensibly factual expressions we need to take with a grain of salt” (September 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5930.0)
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8. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (September 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6441.0)
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9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same thing as the modal auxiliary verb ‘must’? (September 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1997.0)
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10. Getting To Know English: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (September 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7692.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Words don’t come easy” (September 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7691.0)
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12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “We’ve really learned English once we get conversant with its idioms” (September 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6327.0)
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13. Getting to Know English: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (September 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8044.0)
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14. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (September 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7103.0)
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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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