Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 06, 2023, 07:49:11 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 1 - 7, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 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: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (April 6, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8791.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: "Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives" (April 6, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7696.0)
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3. The Forum Lounge: "Young novelist on ‘The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer’” (April 6, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8792.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “How ‘even though’ and ‘even if’' differ in sense” (April 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8175.0)
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5. Reacquainting Ourselves with the English Modals: “Why Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (April 2, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6689.0)
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6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6124.0)
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7. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (April 6, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2291.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest: "21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal relations" (April 5, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7941.0)
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10. Use and Misuse: "Fused sentences are very serious, very annoying grammar violations" (April 6, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7098.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo: "When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement" (April 3, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6534.0)
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12. A Meditation You May Want to Share Right Now: Louie Schwartzberg's TED presentation on “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (April 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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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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