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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 18, 2018, 08:15:07 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 12 - 18, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(7 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “Beware that mass nouns are distinct from collective nouns” (May 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7551.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1585.0)
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3. An Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6345.0)
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4. Back to the Basics in Combining Sentences: “‘Which,’ ‘that,’ ‘who’ and other grammar pitfalls” (May 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6900.0)
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5. A Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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6. The Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6894.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “When a lover takes liberties with his English” (May 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7548.0)
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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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