Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 31, 2020, 01:08:28 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 24 - 30, 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. Use and Misuse: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (October 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8283.0)
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2. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “8 readings for Halloween and All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day” (October 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7183.0)
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3. Two Poetry Readings for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day: “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion” (October 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7188.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (October 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7696.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (October 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Epigraphs: Simply labels or motive engines for literary narratives?” (October 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=600.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When educators befuddle” (October 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6773.0)
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8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (October 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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9. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (October 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1519.0)
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10. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?’” (October 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=793.0)
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12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ finally enters the French lexicon” (October 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5976.0)
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13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour sings a classic!” (October 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=464.0)
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14. Time Out from English Grammar: “The many magic tricks the brain plays on our conscious mind” (October 30,2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1584.0)
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15. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use ‘request’ or ‘request for’?” (October 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8080.0)
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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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