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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 18, 2020, 01:40:46 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (December 12 - 18, 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: “What constitutes a dependent clause in reported speech – 1” (December 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8301.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (December 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6915.0)
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3. 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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4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (December 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)
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5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Andy Rooney’s “33 golden nuggets of inspiration” (December 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1564.0)
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6. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “A figure of speech that’s often used to subvert reason and logic” (December 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5835.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses” (November 29, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7292.0)
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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The Historical, Literary, and Eternal Present” (December 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6713.0)
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9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A little bit of history about ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’” (December 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6115.0)
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10. 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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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What to do when the subject is a very long noun form” (December 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7791.0)
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12. 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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13. Getting To Know English Better “The seven uses of noun clauses” (December 14, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7292.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The differences in sense when ‘will’ or ‘would’ is used” (December 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7291.0)
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15. Essays by Jose A. Carillo: “How onerous legalese imperils public welfare” (December 13, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8107.0)
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16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “20 highbrow jokes to wrack our brains and tickle our funnybones” (December 17, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6441.0)
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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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