Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 09, 2023, 09:26:18 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 4 - 10, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 11 classic posts:
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: “Simpler alternatives for the subjunctive” (March 9, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8771.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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3. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6176.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7456.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “How I Discovered Gabriel García Márquez” (March 7, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6730.0)
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6. Advice and Dissent: “For better or worse, blurbs and their hyperboles are here to stay” (March 5, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8769.0)
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7. Going Deeper Into Language: Christopher Morley’s selection of “33 Modern English Essays” (March 5, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=20.0)
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8. Retrospective - Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: A treasury of funny quotes and outrageous sayings (March 9, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7829.0)
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10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “The one single thing that brought them all to America” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8031.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Exercising caution in asserting what’s good or bad English” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7878.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Make sure our expressions of endearment don't bungle their comparatives” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8265.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7454.0)
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14. When Songwriters Take Liberties with Language: “Questionable English grammar in the lyrics of a popular song” (March 6, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6825.0)
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15. Worth Watching Again and Again: “The Forum's March 2023 Special of Great Song Performances” (March 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8768.0)
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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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