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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 17, 2020, 02:12:57 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 11- 17, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 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: “‘Bring’ or ‘take’ and ‘come’ or ‘go’?" (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8133.0)
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2. Provocative Retrospective Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2063.0)
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3. Retrospective on a Mistaken Notion About Idioms: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6760.0)
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4. Retrospective To An Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1308.0)
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5. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Writing: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
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7. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misplaced modifying phrase fractures Bohol earthquake news” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6077.0)
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8. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6510.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=295.0)
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10. Normal Sequence-of-Tenses Rule Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (January 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1246.0)
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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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
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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