PLAYLIST UPDATE (March 11 - 17, 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 Know English Better: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (March 16, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8775.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “What to do when a simple indicative sentence just can’t make your point” (March 12, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6012.0)
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3. Advice and Dissent: “Could an algorithm do a better job of deciding what’s best for you?” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8773.0)
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4. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6830.0)
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5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (March 14, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7761.0)
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6. Notable Works by Our Very Own: “Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one” (March 5, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=524.0)
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7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=748.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Making sense of abstruse legalese” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8341.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: “34 business jokes and quotes to perk up our dreary days” (March 16, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6908.0)
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10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=622.0)
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11. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Distress over alarmist TV reporting about Mayon Volcano’s 2009 eruption” (March 15, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=455.0)
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12. Just a Fleeting Look at History: “Truer, flesh-and-blood portraits of Borgia, Machiavelli, and Da Vinci” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=536.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “On the trail of serendipity” (March 14, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8305.0)
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14. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Can a sentence have two subordinate clauses in a row?” (March 14, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6157.0)
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15. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “A student’s travails in modular distance learning” (March 11, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8346.0)
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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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