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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 12, 2021, 08:30:07 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (February 6 - 12, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
16 new postings, 11 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. Getting to Know English: “The art of avoiding needless voice shifts” (February 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8326.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8142.0)
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3. Refresher in Punctuating Amplifying Elements: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (February 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6797.0)
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4. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (February 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6783.0)
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5. Readings in Language: “Self-taught computer-savvy scholar uncovers ‘inspiration’ for 11 Shakespeare plays” (February 10, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7417.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (February 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=535.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Awful, otherworldly use of the possessive form” (February 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6798.0)
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8. Refresher in English Grammar Basics: “Phrasal verbs are phrases with a figurative meaning” (February 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6800.0)
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9. Rendezvous with “Pun-ography”: “34 rollicking wordplays to perk up your day” (February 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5367.0)
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11. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 2021 ) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7412.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7850.0)
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13. Time Out From English Grammar: “U.S. math professor stumbles on an ancient Babylonian trick that make solving quadratic equations much easier” (February 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8143.0)
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14. Language Humor at Its Finest Retrospective: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7411.0)
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15. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need to teach our children to think logically” (February 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6879.0)
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16. Going Way, Way Down Memory Lane: “Manila at the turn of the 20th Century” (February 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=315.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (11 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “New history book asserts that the lost island of Mazaua is the true site of the first Holy Mass in the Philippines” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8315.0)
(Originally posted January 8, 2021)
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. “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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6. 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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7. “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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8. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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9. “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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10. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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11. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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