January 28, 2024
Dear Forum Member and Friend,
We are pleased to announce that for this first quarter of 2024, the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage is featuring a retrospective of 12 of Jose Carillo’s personal essays written for his English-usage column in The Manila Times and subsequently posted in the Forum during the 20-year period from 2003 to 2023.
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The 12 personal essays, each viewable by clicking their indicated web links, are as follows:
1. A World Without English (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6725.0)
2. The Grammar of Manners (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=224.0)
3. English in a Used Jar (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6743.)
4. Do Kingfishers Eat Butter? (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7652.0)
5. The Tree of Life (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
6. Indignities in American Minor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
7. How I Discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6730.0)
8. Rediscovering John Galsworthy: “The Apple Tree” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6727.0)
9. The Roots of English (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6918.0)
10. The Evil That Ignorance and Incompetence Can Do (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6732.0)
11. Matters of Faith (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8182.0)
12. The Real Score About Valentine’s Day (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
These essays are likewise directly viewable from the Jose Carillo Forum Homepage at https://josecarilloforum.com/.
We trust that you’ll find these 12 essays enjoyable reading or re-reading as well as instructive about the power of English in communicating our thoughts and ideas and in expressing our feelings.
With our best wishes,
Joe Carillo