Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 20, 2021, 08:36:56 AM
-
PLAYLIST UPDATE ((March 13 - 19, 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. Students’ Sounding Board: “A student’s travails in modular distance learning” (March 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8346.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/student-travails_distance-learning-1A2.png)
2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7466.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/aristotle-on-rhetoric_images-1A5.png)
3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar – 2” (March 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7891.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/prepositions-as-function-words_image-1A6.png)
4. Language Humor at Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=976.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/cliffhanger-of-a-stunt_image-1A1.png)
5. Getting To Know English: “How the English past imperfect tense works” (March 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8164.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/past-imperfect-tense_images-1A1.png)
6. Use and Misuse: “What does it mean to be asked “Are you understanding me?”” (March 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6831.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/stativeverbs_images-1D6.png)
7. Language Humor at its Finest: “Puns to poke fun at the pain of occupational dismissals” (March 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1391.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/puns-for-getting-fired_from-work-1A6.png)
8. Interesting Science Reading You Might Have Missed: “Is it true that we’re just an impurity in an otherwise beautiful universe?” (March 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6045.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/universe_according-to-goldberg-1A1.png)
9. Advice and Dissent: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/ProofinessCover-1C5.png)
10. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The frequent use of “I” isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (March 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Eye-I-1A1.png)
11. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6835.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/terrific-political-quips_collection-1A1.png)
12. Use and Misuse: “Precisely determining what ‘determiners’ are” (March 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6282.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/determiners_images-2A5.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Mazaua-Book_front-cover-1A2s.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/clifford&umbrella-girl_composite-1M2.png)
3. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/TreeofKnowledge-M1.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/RizalLoves-2C.jpg)
8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PopeJohnPaul_Manila-5D.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/PStar_Boobs-C.png)
10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)
11. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/liberty.png)
Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8345.0)
Visit the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage! (http://josecarilloforum.com/)