Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 19, 2021, 08:34:04 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 9 - 15, 2021) 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. Getting to Know English Better: “Not all our assertions can be established truths” (January 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8317.0)
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2. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6510.0)
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3. Jaw-dropping Grammar Misuse Retrospective: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6762.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the one nonfiction book that each profoundly changed their minds” (January 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
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5. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=295.0)
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6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ” (January 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5878.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What does the expression ‘if anything’ mean?” (January 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7366.0)
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8. Normal Sequence-of-Tenses Rule Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (January 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1246.0)
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9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6329.0)
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10. How Come They Didn’t Have the Nobility of Spirit? “The league of literary greats is hardly a mutual admiration society” (January 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6231.0)
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11. Critique of Media’s Spectacular Word Misuse: “‘Coeds’ from exclusive girls’ school’ a contradiction in terms” (January 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=972.0)
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12. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1911.0)
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13. Essay on Public Speaking That You Might Have Missed: “Clichés and bad body English” (January 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=33.0)
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14. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Why not a few academics encode their insights into turgid English” (January 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7817.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (January 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
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16. An English Grammar Lesson You Might Have Missed: “The little-heralded past imperfect tense in English”(January 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6575.0)
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17. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (January 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6428.0)
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18. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7335.0)
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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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