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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 25, 2018, 04:24:31 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 19 - 25, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(7 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “A puzzling usage of ‘which’ to introduce a relative clause” (May 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7559.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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3. Again, Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6907.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Why the word ‘bloom’ has no ‘s’ in ‘Plant a tree and see hope bloom’” (May 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7558.0)
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5. Use and Misuse: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7560.0)
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6. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Loving, at times kooky homage to a master English prose stylist” (May 23, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1506.0)
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7. The Great Shift to Pragmatic Language: “Transitioning from academic to business English” (May 22, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6903.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. 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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2. “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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3. 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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4. “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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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “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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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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