Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 04, 2021, 01:57:36 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 29 - June 4, 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” - Part 10 (June 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8382.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (June 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7577.0)
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3. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Mastery of the connectives can make us write much better” (June 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8209.0)
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4. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’?” (June 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7578.0)
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5. Your Thoughts Exactly: “A Stone So Heavy But with a Strong Desire to Float" by Antonio Calipjo Go (June 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8388.0)
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6. Retrospective on a Misdirected Environmental War: “Wage war against water hyacinths, not against water lilies” (June 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1568.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that went awry” (June 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (June 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8305.0)
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9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 31, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7566.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar” (June 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8210.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question: “The pivotal role of ‘each’ in establishing the number of things” (June 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7961.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Part 1 - Getting reacquainted with the coordinating conjunctions” (June 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8204.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Choosing tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (June 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7575.0)
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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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