Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 12, 2023, 11:42:27 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 7 - 13, 2023) 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. Getting To Write English Better: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 2” (January 12, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8732.0)
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2. My English Media Watch Retrospective: “‘Coeds’ from exclusive girls’ school’ a contradiction in terms” (January 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=972.0)
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3. A Grammar Lesson You May Need to Review Yourself: “The difference between ‘going to’ and ‘will’” (January 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1911.0)
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4. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of ‘between’” (January 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=279.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “The choice between gerunds and infinitives” (January 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7355.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The perfect infinitive and its uses” (January 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8128.0)
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7. Readings in Language: Tagalog among top 5 most widely spoken non-English languages in the U.S. today (January 12, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8733.0)
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8. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=932.0)
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9. Shoptalk Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1616.0)
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10. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 puns on the job” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1359.0)
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11. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How inversion can clarify baffling sentences” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8313.0)
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12. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6525.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7349.0)
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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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