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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 05, 2019, 08:05:44 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 29 - July 5, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
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For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. Getting To Know English: “Bedlam when a verb is very late in coming” (July 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7992.0)
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2. A Recommended Self-Improvement Regimen: “How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying” (July 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6945.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Looking deeply into religious belief as a problem in international affairs” (July 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1156.0)
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “Can the indefinite articles be used with uncountable nouns?” (July 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7607.0)
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6. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “18 years old and above” or “18 years old and older”? (July 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7989.0)
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7. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6944.0)
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8. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A Taste of Vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=52.0)
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9. Getting to Know the Tenses Better: “How English deals with the past imperfect tense” (July 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6942.0)
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10. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting obsessed over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6137.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why is it easier for learners to speak English than write it?” (June 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6029.0)
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12. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (June 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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13. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (June 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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14. Very Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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15. Language Humor At Its Finest: “13 + 1 Key Differences Between Men and Women” (June 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1753.0)
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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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