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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 30, 2018, 03:46:46 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 24 - 30, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 new postings):
1. Notable Works By Our Very Own: “Full-color, 176-page collector’s anthology on Jose Rizal launched” (November 27, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7778.0)
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2. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Let’s be firm on whether the noun ‘Philippines’ is singular or plural” (November 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6874.0)
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3. A Full-Dress Review of the Kinds of Verbs in English – 7: "How the English modal auxiliaries work" (November 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7779.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A case of a past perfect sentence that evokes lost opportunity” (November 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7603.0)
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5. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5956.0)
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6. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7254.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1335.0)
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9. Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain geography cluelessness” (November 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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10. Free Yardstick For English Proficiency: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=284.0)
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11. Forum Lounge Lookback: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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12. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Lookback: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (November 27, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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13. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “A serious grammar malfunction about a wardrobe malfunction” (November 27, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6467.0)
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14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Give zing to your English with tiny doses of ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=675.0)
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15. Use and Misuse: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4900.0)
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16. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two instructive cases of English misuse and suspected misuse” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7246.0)
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17. Something Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1927.0)
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18. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Dictionary of evaluation comments” (November 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1055.0)
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19. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “11 delectable quotes on breasts” (November 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6629.0)
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20. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against journalistic nonsense” (November 24, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)
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21. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Louie Schwartzberg’s 'Hidden Miracles of the Natural World'” (November 25, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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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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