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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 08, 2019, 08:50:35 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (November 1 - 8, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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: “The perplexing workings of the double possessive” (November 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8085.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors” (November 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8084.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest: “News headlines that went awry” (November 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (November 7, 2019) (http://tinyurl.com/yau3lmkt)
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5. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=572.0)
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6. Time Out From English Grammar: “The ever-changing standards for beauty over the centuries” (November 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=916.0)
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7. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Shell-shocked by English grammar bombs in entertainment reporting” (November 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6458.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper tense to use when talking now about the past” (November 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7201.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “A close encounter with wrong adverb usage” (November 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7203.0)
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10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “English grammar and usage: Defense and assault”
(November 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=235.0)
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11. Readings in Language: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6549.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7198.0)
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13. Forum Advocacies Retrospective: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7752.0)
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14. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Dealing with the vexing inverted syntax of passive-voice sentences” (November 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2329.0)
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15. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “When a comma is misused to link two independent coordinate clauses” (November 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7751.0)
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16. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A novelist in ill health races with time to finish a masterpiece” (November 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7195.0)
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17. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The roots of English” (November 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6918.0)
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18. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A hilarious cornucopia of jokes about English grammar and usage” (November 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6212.0)
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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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