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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 08, 2021, 10:45:23 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 2 - 8, 2021) 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. Advice and Dissent: “New book asserts Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (January 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8315.0)
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2. Getting to Know English: “How inversion can clarify baffling sentences” (January 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8313.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Doing battle with the most irritating phrases in English” (January 6, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=932.0)
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4. Classic Grammar Baffler Revisited: “How do you deal with anticipatory ‘there’ clauses?” (January 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6057.0)
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5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really in making things” (December 31, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6176.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=961.0)
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7. Quick Review of a Very Basic Grammar Lesson: “The use the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘at’ in American English” (January 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6525.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Setting the matter straight on the ‘not me’ vs. ‘not I’ usage” (January 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7349.0)
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9. Retrospective Shoptalk Among Jaded Media Practitioners: “The adjective ‘naked’ gets misplaced in an online news headline” (January 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1616.0)
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10. A Grammar Dictum You Might Need To Junk: “Shedding off the active-voice straitjacket from our English” (January 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1670.0)
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11. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Playing boldly with sentences” (January 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=228.0)
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12. Retrospective on Utterly Misleading Disaster News Story: “Shock-and-awe reportage on 2013 Bohol earthquake” (January 5, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6070.0)
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13. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “34 business jokes and quotes” (January 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6908.0)
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14. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7814.0)
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15. You Asked Me This Question: “The perfect gerund and its uses” (January 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8122.0)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/the-perfect-gerund_how-it-works-1A1.png)
16. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7335.0)
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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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/TreeofKnowledge-M1.png)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Valentine_romance-1A.jpg)
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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/translation_problems-2D.jpg)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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