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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on March 14, 2021, 09:48:38 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE ((March 6 - 12, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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. Advice and Dissent: “After 500 years, will the true site of the first Holy Mass get firmly established once and for all?” (March 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8343.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “Making sense of abstruse legalese” (March 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8341.msg14742#msg14742)
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3. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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4. Use and Misuse of English Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6830.0)
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5. Baffling Choice Between Two Phrasal Verbs: “Three years apart, two S.O.S. about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (March 8, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7456.0)
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7. Unsettling Retrospectives for Hero Worshippers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=622.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The four forms that absolute phrases take” (March 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7427.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “The correct way of using the anticipatory ‘there’ clause” (March 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7454.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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11. Provocative Finding You Might Have Missed:“Even in the TV reality-show era, our ticket to fame is really making things” (March 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6176.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When English isn’t the English that we know” ” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7452.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent: Spanish historian’s commentary on Gines de Mafra’s account of Magellan’s sojourn” (March 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8340.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (March 7,2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7453.0)
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14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Preventing scholarship from getting swamped with low-quality research” (March 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=748.0)
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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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