Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 26, 2021, 06:45:38 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 14 - 20, 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. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How plain English and legalese differ, or vice versa- 1” (August 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8438.0)
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2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7042.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7656.0)
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4. Getting to Know English Better: “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive” (August 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7039.0)
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5. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Current private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (August 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7657.0)
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6. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (August 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8031.0)
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7. Just a Little Retrospective for Birthdays: “No need to hold 'celebrant' in a straightjacket” (August 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6875.0)
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8. My Post-Birthday Retrospective: “Redux: A special 2016 year-end folio of my essays” (August 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6748.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “Not for the tongue-tied: Tagalog tongue-twisters just this once” (August 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6581.0)
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10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7038.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (August 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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12. Media English Watch Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?" (August 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4947.0)
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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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