Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 05, 2021, 05:21:53 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 30 - February 5, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
14 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 – 3” (February 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8323.0)
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2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Learning the English idioms” (February 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6787.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar; “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6443.0)
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4. Getting to Know English Better: “How the English personal pronouns inflect for case” (January 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6783.0)
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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. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (February 3, 2021 ) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6209.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “A masterful guide to the craft of modern nonfiction writing” (January 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5836.0)
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8. The Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6582.0)
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9. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Michel Montaigne as influential contemporary writer for all time” (February 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=816.0)
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10. Time Out From English Grammar: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2021 ) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6084.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (February 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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12. Essays By Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6915.0)
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13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A delightful hodgepodge of ‘sniglets’” (January 31, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7843.0)
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14. Language Humor At Its Finest: “The perils of missing periods or forgetting commas” (January 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6478.0)
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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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