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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 30, 2020, 11:41:17 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JULY 25 - 31, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
19 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. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin” (July 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8249.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (July 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8014.0)
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3. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (July 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7655.0)
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4. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6991.0)
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5. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English” (July 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7761.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (July 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7625.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.0)
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8. How Good is Your English? “How criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests can help improve your English” (July 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=422.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1572.0)
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10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Using computers to develop religion policy options for a healthier, happier world” (July 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7621.0)
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11. Readings in Language: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says 2011 book’” (July 28, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1719.0)
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12. Time Out From English Grammar: “South Korean YouTuber, just 6, buys $8-million property using her toy review channel earnings” (July 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8009.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1734.0)
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14. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime” (July 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5367.0)
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15. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2312.0)
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16. Quick Explication For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘none’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.0)
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17. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Here are arguably the 100 funniest English words” (July 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6500.0)
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18. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The rightful place for a headline modifier” (July 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index php?topic=8005.0)
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19. Enduring Non-Grammar Classic in the Forum: “Things My Mother Taught Me” (July 25, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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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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