Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 26, 2023, 07:23:47 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 21 - 27, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 – 4” (January 26, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8745.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Protocol should trump grammar at all times” (January 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6774.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar: “To fight climate change more strongly, Microsoft's Bill Gates is funding development of a seaweed-feed additive that reduces cow burps and farts” (January 26, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8747.0)
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4. Special Forum Retrospective Folio: “12 Selected Essays by Jose Carillo” (January 22, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/YES/)
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5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (January 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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6. Troublesome pronoun choice that still bugs many: “Avoidance options for the pesky ‘who vs. whom’ conundrum” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6215.0)
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7. Lest This Added Grammar Refresher Be Overlooked: “Departures from the rules for tag questions” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6772.0)
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8. Take Time To Brighten Your Day: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (January 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6441.0)
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9. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “How ‘right of reply’ differs from ‘right to reply’” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7388.0)
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10. A Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6767.0)
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11. Retrospective to Nina O.'s Second Letter To Me: “I will always treasure your books for a lifetime” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6771.0)
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12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The state of our English” (January 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=48.0)
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13. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Let’s get the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage straight” (January 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8522.0)
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14. Language Humor At Its Finest: "A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings" (January 21, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7829.0)
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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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