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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 13, 2018, 02:10:41 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 7 - 13, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7505.0)
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2. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4123.0)
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3. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Take an incredible e-trip to Mars with the Exploration Rover Mission” (April 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3175.0)
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4. Getting To Know English: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (April 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7504.0)
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5. An Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 11, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)
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6. Prescriptions for Aspiring Fiction Writers Revisited: “29 best-selling fiction writers share their secrets to success” (April 11, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=554.0)
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7. Meditations for Our Digital Age - A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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8. Getting To Know English: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7502.0)
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9. Never Too Late for This Mind-Blowing Reading: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (April 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Better: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7501.0)
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11. Retrospective - Language Humor At Its Finest: “I’ll bet you didn’t know these about the English language” (April 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6429.0)
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12. An English Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6539.0)
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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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