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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 23, 2021, 05:22:33 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 16 - 22, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
10 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. My Media English Watch Revisited: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 1” (January 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8319.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The pitfalls in constructing negative ‘used to’ sentences” (January 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7387.0)
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3. A Grammar Refresher You Just Might Need: “Saying our tag questions right” (January 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6769.0)
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4. Language Humor at Its Finest: “Top One Hundred Funniest One-Liners” (January 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1296.0)
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5. Grammar Refresher You Might Find Useful: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (January 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6767.0)
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6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the one nonfiction book that each profoundly changed their minds” (January 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7825.0)
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8. Jaw-dropper Grammar Misuse You Might Have Missed: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage” (January 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6762.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘mine’ works as pronoun or adjective but not as determiner” (January 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7373.0)
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10. Language Humor at its Finest: “20 gems of the fine but now vanishing art of persiflage” (January 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6570.0)
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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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