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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 28, 2019, 09:10:30 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 22 - 28, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: "When to use full infinitives, bare infinitives, or gerunds - 2" (June 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7987.0)
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2. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “How the numerals 0 - 9 got their shapes” (June 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2369.0)
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3. Going Deeper Into Language: “The perils of sweeping generalizations” (June 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6924.0)
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4. Reality Bites in the Once-Noble Profession: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (June 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5975.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “Should the law and lawyers casually say ‘plea of guilty’ and ‘plea of innocent’?” (June 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=248.0)
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6. Going Back to English Grammar Basics: “Should a noun modified by ‘respective’ always be plural in form?” (June 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6503.0)
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7. Tricky Aspect of Reported Speech: “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule” (June 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6722.0)
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8. Getting To Know English Better: “Using euphemism to cushion the blow of request rejections” (June 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7604.0)
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9. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (June 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6420.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “A case of a past perfect sentence that evokes lost opportunity” (June 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7603.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (June 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=927.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “In self-defense, we must see through deliberately devious English jargon” (June 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6493.0)
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13. No Love Lost Between Them: “The league of great literary authors is hardly a mutual admiration society” (June 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6231.0)
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14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “29 more great palindromes for the road” (June 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=930.0)
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15. Getting To Know English Better: “Two often interchangeable forms of the English future tense” (June 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7600.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
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2. 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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3. 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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4. “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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5. 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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6. “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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7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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8. “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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9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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