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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 26, 2018, 02:13:27 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (OCTOBER 20 - 26, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):
1. A full-dress review of the kinds of verbs in English – II: “Transitive verbs are either dynamic or stative” (October 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7736.0)
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2. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Homer’s classic ‘Iliad’ rendered in four English language registers” (October 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1875.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (October 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=869.0)
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4. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part I: "Parenthesis by comma” (October 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=915.0)
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Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part II: The appositive phrase” (October 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7734.0)
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Unified Approach to Punctuation in English - Part III: “Parenthesis by dashes and parenthesis by parentheses” (October 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7739.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why are legal papers and contracts hard to understand?” (October , 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7735.0)
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6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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7. Use and Misuse: “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (October 23, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7733.0)
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8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Doing battle with the recurrent misuse of the conjunction ‘as’” (October 23, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7172.0)
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9. “My Thoughts Exactly” Featured Essay: Antonio Calipjo Go's “The Two Hemispheres of Me” (October 23, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7729.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “If what’s said doesn’t make sense, go ask your doctor--or maybe not at all!” (October 21, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6527.0)
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11. Full-Dress Review of the English Prepositions - 4: “Getting to know the prepositional idioms” (October 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7728.0)
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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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