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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 07, 2018, 02:17:19 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 1 - 7, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English: “Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion” (September 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7676.0)
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2. Communicating More Effectively in English: “The grammar of indirect questions” (September 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7072.0)
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3. Are You Ready For A Big Self-Discovery? “Check how intelligent you really are” (September 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6489.0)
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4. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7076.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A question on progressive tense usage” (September 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7071.0)
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6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (September 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “A doubtful comparative phrase: ‘like, for example…’” (September 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7674.0)
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8. Getting To Know English Better: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 2” (September 3, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7672.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 3, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1784.0)
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10. Getting to Know English Better: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 3, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7067.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (September 2, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6570.0)
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12. A Double-Edged Sword for Aspiring Writers: “Is the multiple use of the first-person ‘I’ necessarily a redundancy?” (September 2, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=907.0)
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13. Getting To Know English Better: “The subject-verb agreement conundrum flares up again – 1” (September 1, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7671.0)
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14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (September 1, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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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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