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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 16, 2020, 11:06:35 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MAY 9 - 15, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 new postings, 10 classic 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: “Revisiting the ‘who’/ ‘whom’ grammar conundrum” (May 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8195.0)
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2. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “23 Thoughts of a normal 50-something woman beyond reproach” (May 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7949.0)
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3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7948.0)
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4. Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “So what do we do now with all those tired, time-worn clichés?” (May 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6397.0)
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6. The Great Thorny Debate About Preposition Usage: “Should you let your prepositions dangle?” (May 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6894.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When a lover takes liberties with his English” (May 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7548.0)
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8. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Getting rid of awkward beginnings” (May 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7546.0)
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9. Retrospective for Mother’s Day: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (May 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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10. Getting To Know English Better: “The present participle and past participle as modifiers – II” (May 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7545.0)
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11. Getting To Know English Better: “How to differentiate between ‘litotes’ and the ‘double negative’” (May 10, 2020) (https://tinyurl.com/ycwwn28j)
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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain” (May 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7942.0)
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13. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Verbs to tie up loose ends” (May 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6892.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “Random questions that need a lot of explaining to answer” (May 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7939.0)
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15. Language Humor at its Finest: “21 enduring rules and truisms in business and personal affairs” (May 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7941.0)
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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)
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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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