Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 14, 2021, 11:29:35 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 8 - 14, 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. Advice and Dissent: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – Part 8” (May 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8374.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “How litotes and the double negative differ” (May 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8197.0)
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3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “A compelling alternative to Shakespeare’s true identity was that he was a woman”” (May 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7947.0)
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4. Getting to Know English Better: “Revisiting the ‘who’/ ‘whom’ grammar conundrum” (May 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8195.0)
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5. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to identify what’s wrong in a sentence construction test” (May 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6224.0)
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6. Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6894.0)
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7. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “14 things my mother taught me” (May 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest “53 memorable quotes from famous celebrities over the years” (May 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1249.0)
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9. English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Gobbledygook na Ingles at Tagalog” (“Inday ng Buhay Natin”) (May 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1452.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The reign of the dreadful clichés” (May 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=476.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Verbatim: What Is a photocopier?” (May 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7342.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Better: “Are you using ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive?” (May 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8192.0)
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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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