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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 18, 2019, 09:47:24 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 12 - 18, 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. Getting To Know English Better: “Is there anything wrong with the expression ‘Thanks God’?” (October 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8067.0)
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2. Unified Approach to Punctuation in English – Parts I, II, and II: “The parenthesis and its uses: the appositive phrase – Part I” (October 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=926.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar: “Thomas Edison’s greatest idea ‘wasn’t something anybody could patent or touch’” (October 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8069.0)
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4. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “A full-dress review of the verb types in English – 1” (October 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7725.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Writing to hook the reader” (October 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=336.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (October 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=976.0)
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7. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “In English, it’s the auxiliary or helping verb that takes the tense” (October 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6317.0)
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8. Tough Questions in Complex Sentence Construction: “Positioning pronouns in complex sentences largely a style decision” (October 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2152.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest Encore: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (October 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1330.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “The Prepositions Revisited” (October 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7722.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A primer on political propaganda” (October 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=243.0)
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12. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Five dozen amusing job descriptions” (October 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6276.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Does religion confer a distinct survival advantage to humankind?” (October 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=553.0)
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14. Retrospective on the English Alphabet: “Why is the stand-alone letter ‘I’ always capitalized?” (October 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6438.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (October 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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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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