Jose Carillo on the English Language

This blog makes wide-ranging discussions on the use and misuse of the English language. Jose A. Carillo is a nationally awarded writer and editor and an internationally awarded corporate communicator. He has written three books on English usage.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

USING DISCOURSE MARKERS FOR CONTEXTUALIZING IDEAS

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Putting Our Ideas in Better Context by Using Discourse Markers No doubt that most of you who read my English-usage columns and Forum website...

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

USING THE SERIAL COMMA NOT JUST A MATTER OF STYLISTIC PREFERENCE

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The need to consistently use the Oxford or serial comma By Jose A. Carillo It might seem like it’s just a matter of personal stylistic prefe...

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

WHEN SENSE OR NUANCE GETS LOST IN TRANSLATION

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Lost in Translation By Jose A.Carillo Part 1 - When a translation misses a nuance or bungles an idiom or two One of the pleasures of readin...

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

WHY IS THE ENGLISH OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

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Agonizing to make heads and tails of English legalese By Jose A. Carillo Sometime in 2014 a reader of my English-usage column in The Manil...

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

RETROSPECTIVE TO AN AWFUL BEAUTY TILT Q&A FIASCO

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“Faulty English question, fumbling English answer ” By Jose A. Carillo I n a national beauty competition in the Philippines in 2008, a ba...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

PRIME SEAT OF POLITICAL POWER IN THE PHILIPPINES

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Tales of the longest-staying Malacañang resident except for one By Jose A. Carillo From its beginnings in 1802 as a Spanish aristocrat’s s...

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JoeCarillo: Jose A. Carillo is a nationally awarded writer and editor and an internationally awarded corporate communicator. He won a National Book Award for linguistics from the Manila Critics Circle in 2005 for his first English-usage book, "English Plain and Simple.” Aside from winning a total of nine major industry awards in the Philippines as company editor and public affairs executive, he won the Gold Quill Award of the U.S.-based International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1989 and the Golden World Award of the U.K.-based International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in 1990. He is now an independent editor and communication consultant based in Metro Manila.

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