Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 09, 2020, 07:09:43 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 31 - November 6, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 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: “Should adjective clauses always be reduced to adjective phrases? – I” (November 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8286.0)
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2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English –4” (November 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7755.0)
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3. My Media Watch Lookback: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (November 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7016.0)
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4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors” (November 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8084.0)
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5. Language Humor at its Finest: "News headlines that went awry" (November 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=572.0)
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7. Forum Advocacies Retrospective: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7752.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7198.0)
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9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6549.0)
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10. Getting to Know English: “4 specific applications of the parallelism rules” (November 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7209.0)
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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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