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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 13, 2020, 10:07:05 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 7 - 13, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(20 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 great importance of parallelism in good writing – 4” (March 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8159.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (March 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7462.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=976.0)
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4. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “How do ‘I hope’ and ‘hopefully’ differ and is the latter acceptable usage?” (March 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=501.0)
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6. 2016 Year-End Folio Retrospective: “Six personal essays and six general-interest readings" (March 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/YES)
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7. Advice and Dissent: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=748.0)
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8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6830.0)
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9. Unsettling Revelations for Hero Worshipers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=622.0)
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10. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A folktale for our troubled times” (March 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6410.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent: “How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (March 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=595.0)
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12. Wacky Phonetics You Might Have Missed: “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6127.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent: “When writers decide to write, should they stick to what they know?” (March 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6187.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7458.0)
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15. You Asked Me This Question: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6829.0)
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16. Intriguing Question on Possessive Adjectives: “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6827.0)
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17. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7454.0)
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18. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7456.0)
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19. Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0)
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20. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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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”[/size] (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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