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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 05, 2019, 09:54:17 AM

Title: Playlist (Dec. 29, 2018 - Jan. 4, 2019) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on January 05, 2019, 09:54:17 AM
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 29 - JANUARY 4, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):

1. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7814.0)

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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great Titles in the Making” (January 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)

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3. Looking Back to the Forum in 2018: “The grievous moral error of belief with no supporting evidence” (January 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)

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4. Classic Grammar Baffler: “Should we use ‘there was’ or ‘there were’?” (January 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6057.0)
 
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “How gerunds and infinitives work” (January 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7338.0)

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6. Language Humor at its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=961.0)

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7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7335.0)

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8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Sissel Kyrkjebø sings ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for the New Year” (December 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6122.0)

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9. Forum Year-Ender Retrospective: “6 personal essays over the years and 6 general-interest readings” (December 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/YES)

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10. Language Humor at its Finest: “How to say ‘Happy New Year’ in any of 58 countries” (December 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4536.0)

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11. The Forum Lounge: “Why the Arabic numbers look the way they do” (December 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2369.0)

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12. Rizal Day Commemorative Feature: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6933.0)

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13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (December 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1365.0)

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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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)

2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
     (Originally posted circa 2002   Reposted December 16, 2016)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)    

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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Click this link to earlier Playdate features! (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7812.0)

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