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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 09, 2021, 01:01:34 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 3 - 9, 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: “Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – 3” (April 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8357.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When do we use the past progressive tense?” (April 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7907.0)
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3. The Very Basics of Courtesy in English: “The proper use of ‘can’ and ‘may’ as a mark of civility” (April 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6858.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 1” (Prepositions of Motion and Location) (April 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7908.0)
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5. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Avoiding misuse of the conjoiner ‘as well as’ in newspaper reporting” (April 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1868.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why do Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (Parts 1, 2, 3) (April 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6689.0)
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7. Readings in Language Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6124.0)
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8. Getting To Know English Better: “How ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ in sense” (April 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8175.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=894.0)
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10. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6123.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question: “Which is correct: ‘Happy birthday to myself!’ or ‘Happy birthday to me!’?” (April 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8174.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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13. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 4, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6860.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0)
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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Too much boasting and nestling in” (April 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=509.0)
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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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