Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 23, 2023, 11:02:02 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 18 - 24, 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: “Using the subjunctive form more confidently – 2” (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8762.0)
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2. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “Subordinate clauses don’t always play second fiddle to main clauses” (February 22, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1211.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Getting used to common English colloquialisms” (February 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8539.0)
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4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6185.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “When can history be told in the present tense?” (February 18, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8328.0)
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6. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare the ‘hard-headed businessman’ uncovered” (February 19, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5750.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/shakespeare-as-ruthless-businessman-1Y1.png)
7. Essay by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The grammar of manners” (February 21, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=224.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 21, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/scripting-rules_hollywood-movies-1Y1.png)
9. A Treasure Trove of Great Verse: “A thousand and one English poems” (February 19, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=29.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: "The difference between misinformation and disinformation" (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8606.0)
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11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin” (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8249.0)
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12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The lure of the inverted pyramid” (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6912.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/inverted-pyramid-writing-1Y1.png)
13. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1519.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/improper-literary-allusions-1Y1.png)
14. Refresher on the Basics of Expository Devices: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (February 23, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=395.0)
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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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/clifford&umbrella-girl_composite-1M2.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
5. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)
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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