PLAYLIST UPDATE FOR MARCH 9 - 15, 2024 OF JOSE CARILLO ENGLISH FORUM’S FACEBOOK GATEWAY
Simply click the web links to the 15 featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories this week along with selected postings published in the Forum in previous years:
1. Getting To Know English: “The age of imprecision” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9020.0)
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2. Getting To Know English Better: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing” - Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8150.0)
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3. Essay by Jose A. Carillo: "Good communicators hone the use of indirect questions to a fine art” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6126.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “How do ‘I hope’ and ‘hopefully’ differ and is the latter acceptable usage?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=501.0)
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5. Getting to Know English Better: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?" (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7462.0)
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6. Just In Case You Missed The Forum's 2016 Year-End Folio: “Six personal essays and six general-interest readings” (http://josecarilloforum.com/YES)
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7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: "How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=595.0)
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8. Just a Fleeting Look at History: “Truer, flesh-and-blood portraits of Borgia, Machiavelli, and Da Vinci” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=536.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Coping with our inability to predict natural cataclysms” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.0)
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11. Readings in Language: “An exemplar in horror fiction shares his thoughts on writing” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6127.0)
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12. Time Out From English Grammar: “Three eye-opening science readings to fight irrationality” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6015.0)
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13. A Forum Lounge Special: “Two magnificent performances of 'The Prayer,' spaced 10 years apart” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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THE CHARLOTTE CHURCH-JOSH GROBAN “THE PRAYER”
2002 LIVE CONCERT PERFORMANCE
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THE CHARICE PEMPENGCO AND THE CANADIAN TENORS
“THE PRAYER” 2010 LIVE TV PERFORMANCE
14. Their Thoughts Exactly: “Medjugorie, here they come“ by Fred Natividad, Forum Contributor (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=716.0)
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15. The Forum Lounge: “Charles Aznavour sings a classic!” (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=464.0)
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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=9017.0)
Visit Jose Carillo's Blogspot on the English Language (https://josecarillo.blogspot.com/)