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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 27, 2020, 08:59:20 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 21 - 27, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(23 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: “How English auxiliary verbs differ from linking verbs” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8168.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=271.0)
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3. On a Lark While on Covid-19 Self-Isolation: “Find out how intelligent you really are” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6489.0)
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4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “News Headlines that Went Awry” (March 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “The excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentence” (March 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6040.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Meditation on Our Digitized World: ‘The Tree of Life’” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Taking note of awful information gaffes and obese rhetoric” (March 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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8. Language Humor at its Finest: “40 frank and not so humorous quotes about real life that should give us pause” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5129.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (March 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “Puzzling over the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7895.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1296.0)
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12. Going Deeper Into Language: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1105.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A personal tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez” (March 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6200.0)
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14. English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6849.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of' usage” (March 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6762.0)
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16. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 24, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1742.0)
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17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Giving a Touch of Authority to Our Prose” (March 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=171.0)
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18. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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19. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6847.0)
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20. Cautionary for Prospective Memoirists: “A rule of thumb for the absurdly bloated genre of memoir writing” (March 23, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1247.0)
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21. Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “A chronicle of the discoveries that shaped the Copernican revolution” (March 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1848.0)
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22. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Verbal fallacies nearer home” (March 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=215.0)
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23. You Asked Me This Question: “Why do many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (March 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.0)
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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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