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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 21, 2020, 05:50:41 AM

Title: Playlist Update (February 15 - 21, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on February 21, 2020, 05:50:41 AM

PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 15 - 21, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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. Getting to Know English Better: “The great importance of parallelism in good writing – 1” (February 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8150.0)

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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with questionable or downright wrong legalese” (February 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6446.0)

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3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (February 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)

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4. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Play it by ear whether to use a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase” (February 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7861.0)

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5. Retrospective on Ungrammatical Song Lyrics: “When a tremendously popular song legitimizes a grammatical atrocity” (February 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1057.0)

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6. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 funny English signboards from all over the world” (February 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1168.0)

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7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare the ‘hard-headed businessman’ uncovered” in the Forum now! (February 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5750.0)

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8. Time Out From Grammar: “Challenging the dogma that our IQ sets a limit on what we can achieve” (February 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6185.0)

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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Avoiding not only redundancy but ultra-redundancy in the same breath” (February 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7859.0)

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10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “30 Famous Thoughts by Astute Minds” (February 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1416.0)

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11. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “The importance of grammar-perfect English – VI” (February 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6812.0)

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12. Making Light of What We Do for a Living: “60 really amusing job descriptions” (February 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6276.0)

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13. Time Out From English Grammar: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (February 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2291.0)

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14. Use and Misuse of English: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (February 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6807.0)

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15. Getting To Know English Better: “The baffling thing about absolute phrases” (February 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7427.0)

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16. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (February 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6420.0)

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17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The battle for our minds” (February 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=236.0)

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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”[/size] (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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