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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 30, 2019, 03:22:18 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 23 - 29, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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: “Is ‘Philippines’ plural and what is its possessive form?” (November 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8103.0)
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2. Forum Lounge Lookback: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (November 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The evil that ignorance and incompetence can do” (November 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6732.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7254.0)
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5. Free Proficiency Yardstick: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior?” (November 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=284.0)
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6. A Media English Critique You Might Have Missed: “Using the wrong words or plain clueless in geography” (November 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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7. Readings in Language: “Teaching writers to write better than they’ve ever written before” (November 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1335.0)
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8. Time Out From English Grammar: Commentary by Maximo Tumali--“How VP Robredo’s loquacity got her axed as anti-drug czar” (November 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8102.0)
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9. Media English Critique Retrospective: “A serious grammar malfunction about a wardrobe malfunction” (November 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6467.0)
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10. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Lookback: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (November 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The use of the expressions ‘about,’ ‘in terms of,’ and ‘when it comes to’” (November 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4900.0)
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12. Something Dated But Too Irresistible Not To Share: “The importance of pronouncing English names correctly” (November 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1927.0)
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13. Language Humor at its Finest: “Dictionary of evaluation comments” (November 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1055.0)
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14. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: Louie Schwartzberg’s “Hidden Miracles of the Natural World” (November 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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15. Dealing With Annoying Grammar Errors (6th in a series of 14): “Intransitive verbs forced to act as transitive ones” (November 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7241.0)
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16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Caution in times of reasonable doubt” (November 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=268.0)
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17. Full-Scale Review of the Noun as Part of Speech: “Getting to know the noun phrase better” (November 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7239.0)
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18. Time Out From English Grammar: “Is there life beyond the universe that we know?” (November 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=452.0)
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19. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (November 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=271.0)
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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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