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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 12, 2020, 05:54:26 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 5 - 11, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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: “Inverted sentences have a subject-verb agreement peculiarity” (December 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8299.0)
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2. Special Retrospective Feature: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past – Redux 9” (December 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7788.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question: “How literal adverbial phrases differ from idiomatic ones” (December 9, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7282.0)
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4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Gobbledygooked Christmas song titles quiz” (December 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6356.0)
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5. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Thinking in numbers as effective, pleasant antidote for numerophobia” (December 11, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6014.0)
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6. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “Deconstructing and understanding those puzzling elliptical sentences” (December 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1718.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Positioning pronouns properly in complex sentences” (November 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7254.0)
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8. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “40 superb paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (December 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (December 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4123.0)
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10. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “78 Fabulous Advice from Famous People” (December 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1319.0)
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11. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A Christmas Q&A for language buffs” (December 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6562.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can an intransitive verb be made transitive by using an adverb?” (December 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7275.0)
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13. Language Humor at its Finest: “24 memorably thoughtful and mischievous quotes” (December 7, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1279.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7270.0)
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15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Bracing nuggets of wisdom about the writing process” (December 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=975.0)
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16. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “How the two types of English determiners work” (December 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8107.0)
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17. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How Do We Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the World’s Languages?” (December 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4128.0)
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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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