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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 11, 2019, 07:51:46 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 5 - 11, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 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: “The correct tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (October 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8063.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better: “The need to avoid mixed-case usage in English – Parts I, II, and III” (October 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7143.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (October 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6068.0)
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4. Going Deeper Into Language: “The need to know the English idioms” (October 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7153.0)
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5. Getting To Know English: “Never strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (October 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7718.0)
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6. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (October 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers” (October 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=310.0)
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8. Use and Misuse: “Confusion over reported speech and stream of consciousness narrative” (October 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8062.0)
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9. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘that’ and ‘than that of’” (October 8, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=940.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Conversations: The reign of the dreadful clichés – 1” (October 8, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7715.0)
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11. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a hard-headed businessman” (October 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5750.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book” (October 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1719.0)
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13. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “59 very close encounters with the language barrier” (October 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2174.0)
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14. Time Out From English Grammar: “‘Scoring’ with a mate can be so sordid and wasteful but necessary” (October 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3169.0)
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15. Education and Teaching: “Experienced Filipino teachers hired to teach in U.S. high schools” (October 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8061.0)
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16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrosepective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (October 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1246.0)
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17. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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18. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “In a divided and angry world, novelists can no longer afford to be apolitical” (October 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7714.0)
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19. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A grammatically doubtful report about a drug mule’s execution” (October 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2032.0)
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20. Readings in Language Retrospective: “People’s names form a veritable catalogue of very ancient ghosts” (October 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=942.0)
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21. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “The nature of true English idioms” (October 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7136.0)
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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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