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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 11, 2020, 08:39:38 AM

Title: Playlist Update (April 4 - 10, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on April 11, 2020, 08:39:38 AM

PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 4 - 10, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “Using the right tense for reported speech” (April 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8179.0)

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2. Views and Commentaries: Maximo Tumbali’s “Reflections This Holy Week in the Time of Covid-19” (April 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8178.0)

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3. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7501.0)

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4. Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)

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5. You Asked Me This Question: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8180.0)

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6. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7502.0)

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7. Meditations for Our Digital Age--A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)

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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (April 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=509.0)

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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Plural form of ‘thank you’ when used as a noun” (April 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7915.0)

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10. You Asked Me This Question: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0)

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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6539.0)

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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6123.0)

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13. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=894.0)

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14. A Meditation You May Want To Share Right Now: Louie Schwartzberg's TED presentation on “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (April 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)

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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (April 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=188.0)

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16. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (April 5, 2020)

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17. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6860.0)

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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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)

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)

(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)

10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
    (Posted October 27, 2016)

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