Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 26, 2021, 04:25:42 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 20 - 26, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – 1” (March 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8348.0)
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2. Getting To Know English: “Some perplexing aspects of noun usage in English” (March 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7476.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Puzzling over the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7895.0)
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4. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1848.0)
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5. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1105.0)
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6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (March 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6200.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (March 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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9. A Gem of a Writing Guide: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (March 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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10. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1296.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1742.0)
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12. English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6849.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=973.0)
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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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