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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 26, 2019, 08:00:28 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 21 - 27, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8116.0)
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2. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (December 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7808.0)
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3. A Correspondence With A Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6081.0)
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4. Forum Lounge: “A hilarious cornucopia of 2014 jokes about English grammar and usage” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6212.0)
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5. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=861.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “The Grammar of Manners” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=224.0)
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7. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Our morality’s chemistry hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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8. Views and Commentaries Retrospective: Maximo Tumbali's “Christmas in Postmodern Times” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7804.0)
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9. Lesson in English Orthography: “Why do we need to capitalize the first-person singular personal pronoun ‘I’?” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=118.0)
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10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Louie Schwartzberg’s “Hidden Miracles of the Natural World” (December 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest: “45 ambiguous newspaper headlines” (December 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1042.0)
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12. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Romance Math & Miscellany” (December 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6117.0)
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13. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is it appropriate to say ‘Advanced or Advance Merry Christmas!’?” (December 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4422.0)
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14. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Why I consistently use the serial comma” (December 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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15. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors: “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7314.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
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2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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3. 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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4. “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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5. 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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6. “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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7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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8. “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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9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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