Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on September 07, 2020, 10:47:43 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 29 - September 4, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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: “Must an object always agree with its possessive pronoun?” (September 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8263.0)
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2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the verbal fallacies – 1” (September 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7076.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “A question on progressive tense usage about current events” (September 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7071.0)
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4. Are You Ready For A Big Self-Discovery? “Check how intelligent you really are” (September 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6489.0)
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5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Agnostic philosopher bashes Richard Dawkins’ brand of atheism” (September 3, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6307.0)
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6. Getting To Know English: “Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion” (September 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7676.0)
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7. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The gifted, highly prolific British sci-fi writer who pursued sex obsessively” (September 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1784.0)
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8. Getting to Know English Better: “Reining in those footloose modifiers” (September 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7067.0)
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9. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “Gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (September 2, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6570.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Do we say “in the street” or “on the street”? (August 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8035.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest: “Not for the tongue-tied: Tagalog tongue-twisters just this once” (August 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6581.0)
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12. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “For good or ill, the Filipino word ‘hulidap’ enters global lexicon” (August 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=947.0)
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13. How English and Science Savvy are You? “44 actual misphrased statements from student science exams” (August 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2312.0)
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14. Silent Fire Retrospective: “Split on infinitives” (August 30, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7667.0)
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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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