Saturday, December 24, 2011

Chiasmus is arousing rhetoric that can weaken our judgment

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Thanks to the moderating influence of the Christmas Season, we are enjoying a much-welcome respite from the vicious propaganda war over the ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

The need for rational thinking in the battle for the public mind

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There’s now a ferocious battle for the public mind among three major independent branches of the Philippine government, namely the Executive...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

The great strides made by English toward nondiscriminatory grammar

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For centuries, English had been intrinsically a sexist and discrimatory language, its lexicon and grammar not only explicitly treating men a...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

The serious lack of civility that afflicts public discourse

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At this time in our country when civility appears to be vanishing from the public sphere, when many traditional seats of power in our societ...
Monday, November 28, 2011

The problem with words without sound semantic underpinnings

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Recently, in My Media English Watch in Jose Carillo’s English Forum , I made a passing comment about “coopetation,” a strange-sounding new w...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Two options when plain indicative sentences are not forceful enough

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Most of the day-to-day writing that we do consists of simple, plainspoken indicative sentences that make use of the normal subject-verb-pred...
Monday, November 14, 2011

How the appositive can give life and texture to writing

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In a recent posting, a member of Jose Carillo's English Forum asked if there should be a limit to the length of appositives. She posed ...