Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 02, 2023, 08:32:08 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 25 - March 3, 2022) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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 – 3” (March 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8766.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (March 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? ‘I didn’t (see, saw) her’” (February 28, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6317.0)
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4. Use and Misuse: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6818.0)
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5. Time Out From English Grammar: “Vengeful poet-editor heaps calumny in his 1849 obituary of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe” (February 26, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8764.0)
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6. Readings in Language Retrospective: “How math and biology have joined forces to unravel the riddle of life” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1672.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/mathematics-of-life_cover-1Y1.png)
7. Use and Misuse: “Avoiding awful misuses of the English possessive” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8283.0)
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8. Notable Works by Our Very Own Retrospective: “Long overlooked for months, ‘Connecting Flights’ finally connects with me” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1067.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “33 plays wyth wurds plus 33 philosophies of hypocrisy and ambiguity” (February 26, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7874.0)
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10. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: “Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6817.0)
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11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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12. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking church dogma” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5123.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/galileo-facing-inquisition-1Y1.png)
13. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “‘Hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (February 25, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7959.0)
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14. Advice and Dissent: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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15. Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Angel Casillan’s “A Prayer to St. Jude” (March 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1210.0)
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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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