Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 03, 2020, 09:11:56 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (September 19 - 25, 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: “Constructing the perfect tenses in the passive voice” (October 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8273.0)
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2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (October 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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3. Language Humor at its Finest: “30 Funny English Signs from All Over the World” (October 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1168.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (October 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7705.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The great gobbledygook-generating machine” (October 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7131.0)
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6. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Humor from U.S.-based Fred Natividad: ‘Medjugorie, Here They Come!’” (October 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=716.0)
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7. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Excessive negation and its dangers” (October 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7129.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (October 1, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct sequence of tenses for complex sentences” (September 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7354.0)
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10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “An assortment of bewildering questions about English usage” (September 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1884.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 Corollaries of Murphy’s Law in the World of Work” (September 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2604.0)
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12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (September 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1519.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (September 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0)
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14. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases – 1” (September 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7699.0)
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15. Quick Review of English Grammar Basics: “Forming negative sentences correctly” (September 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7118.0)
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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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