Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 29, 2021, 05:32:18 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 23 - 29, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
12 new postings, 11 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. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 2” (January 28, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8321.0)
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2. Good English Advocacy Retrospective: “Request for permission to use photos in a 2015 error-riddled Department of Education learning material” (January 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7484.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “The mood and attitude of English verbs” (January 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7399.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar: “A sixth mass extinction in our planet is now unfolding right before our eyes" (January 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6151.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case” (January 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6781.0)
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6. Question Foremost in Laypeople’s Minds: “Why legal documents are not in plain and simple English” (January 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6776.0)
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7. Language Humor At its Finest Retrospective: “Wacky Phonetics: 22 English translations into Chinese in 5 minutes or less” (January 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6127.0)
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8. Getting To Know English Better: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (January 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7393.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6774.0)
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11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (January 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1042.0)
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12. Essays By Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The State of Our English” (January 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8315.0)
(Originally posted January 8, 2021)
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. “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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6. 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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7. “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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8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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9. “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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10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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11. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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