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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 25, 2019, 10:43:54 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 20 - 26, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Prepositions at work in prepositional idioms” (April 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7930.0)
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2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What women and men should have and should know by the time they’re 30” (April 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2600.0)
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3. Language Humor at its Finest: “26 funny sayings & witty puns” (April 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6105.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Using the form that combines prepositions with ‘a preposition + which’” (April 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7527.0)
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5. Real-World Application of Lewis Carroll’s “Symbolic Logic”: “Two simple sentences that create semantic conundrums” (April 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6466.0)
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6. Going Deeper Into Language: “Teaching our children to think logically” (April 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7108.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “How present simple sentences differ from present continuous sentences” (April 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7526.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Getting a squiggly yet very instructive hang of world history” (April 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7083.0)
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9. Readings in Language: “Tolkien: A name destined for philological studies and the creation of imaginary works” (April 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7928.0)
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10. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “When notional agreement prevails over plain grammatical agreement” (April 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6534.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Misuse of “lie” and “lay” punctures many writers’ command of English” (April 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1124.0)
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12. Lenten Season Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Incredulous over an ever-loving omnipotent creator consumed by an endless rage” (April 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7786.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Which of the indefinite pronouns are singular or plural?” (April 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7521.0)
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14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (April 20, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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2. 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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3. “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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4. 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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5. “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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6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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7. “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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8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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9. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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