Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 25, 2020, 03:24:10 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 19 - 25, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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: “What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech – 2” (December 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8304.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the Trail of Serendipity” (December 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8305.0)
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3. Retrospective: A Correspondence With A Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6081.0)
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4. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors: “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7314.0)
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5. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (December 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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6. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Remembrances of Christmases past” (December 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=457.0)
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7. Poignant Christmas Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour—singer, public activist, and diplomat—sings a classic!” (December 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=464.0)
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8. English Orthography Lesson Retrospective: “Why do we need to capitalize the first-person singular personal pronoun ‘I’?” (December 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=118.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (December 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6372.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “I’ll bet you didn’t know these about the English language” (December 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6429.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (December 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6743.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7313.0)
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13. Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can at times be put to good use” (December 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1946.0)
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14. Getting To Know English Better “The seven uses of noun clauses” (December 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7292.0)
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15. How English-Savvy Do You Think You Are? “Quick Quiz on Wayward Modifiers” (December 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6741.0)
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16. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How onerous legalese imperils public welfare” (December 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8112.0)
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17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6441.0)
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18. Dealing with Annoying Grammar Errors: “8 – Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (3)” (December 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7306.0)
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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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