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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 24, 2018, 03:24:32 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (AUGUST 18 - 24, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):
1. Education and Teaching: “Current private sector initiatives to upgrade Filipino teacher quality” (August 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7657.0)
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2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7042.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7656.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 22, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7038.0)
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5. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The Quixotic Quest for Good Teachers” (August 22, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=120.0)
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6. A Media English Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?” (August 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4947.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Using some idiomatic variations of the preposition ‘about’” (August 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7036.0)
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8. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (August 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7655.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 20, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7650.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 20, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6920.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in jeopardy” (August 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0)
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12. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de Résistance in Hollywood Moviemaking” (August 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)
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13. Going Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7032.0)
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14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7652.0)
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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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