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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 14, 2018, 10:10:10 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (SEPTEMBER 8 - 14, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English: “How the noun clause, adjective clause, and adverb clause differ” (September 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7684.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 of the best British jokes” (September 14, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6452.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (September 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7089.0)
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4. Getting to Know English: “Choosing the right words” (September 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7087.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “Phrases desirable and abstruse” (September 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7683.0)
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6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “The need to be grammatically correct in our English” (September 10, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7681.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (September 10, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7083.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “When children define science in their own terms” (September 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7080.0)
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9. Use and Misuse: “Lost in Tagalog-English cross-translation” (September 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7679.0)
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10. Grammar Sounding Board: “Confusion over the use of ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’” (September 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7075.0)
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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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