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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on October 16, 2020, 05:20:10 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 3 - 9, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 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. You Asked Me This Question: “Is there such a thing as a complex-complex sentence?” (October 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8275.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference" (October 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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3. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “The need to know the English idioms” (October 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7153.0)
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4. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 Spot-on Political Quips for Our Times” (October 12, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6068.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The correct tense for reporting verbs in reported speech” (October 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8063.0)
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6. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘that’ and ‘than that of’” (October 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=940.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book” (October 10, 2020)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Some very close and awful encounters with the language barrier” (October 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2174.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Shakespeare wasn’t just a literary giant but a hard-headed businessman” (October 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5750.0)
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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The proper way to construct sentences for reported speech” (October 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1246.0)
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11. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “One-Word, Two-Word Mix-ups” (October 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Elif Shafak’s “In a divided and angry world, novelists can no longer afford to be apolitical” (October 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7714.0)
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13. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “Experienced Filipino teachers hired to teach in U.S. high schools” (October 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8061.0)
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14. Definitely Oldies But Still Goodies: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (October 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=721.0)
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15. You Asked Me This Question: “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into acquiescence” (October 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7708.0)
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16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (October 4, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6209.0)
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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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