Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 02, 2023, 08:27:48 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 28 - February 3, 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 – 5” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8751.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (February 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8652.0)
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3. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun 'everybody'” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar: “For all lovers worldwide, here’s the real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6578.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6084.0)
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5. Essay by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The language of literature and science” (February 3, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6880.0)
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6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Does ‘have to’ mean the same as the modal auxiliary ‘must’”? (February 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7578.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Every language is a distinctively human model of logic and reality” (January 31, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6173.0)
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8. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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9. Advice and Dissent: “Point counterpoint on why Asian-American students excel in the U.S” (January 31, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6135.0)
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10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 3, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6805.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6582.0)
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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue” (February 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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13. Readings in Language Retrospective: “You may not have felt them yet, but these emotional states exist" (February 3, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6533.0)
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14. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Antonio Calipjo Go’s “The Two Hemispheres of Me” (January 31, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7729.0)
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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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