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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on April 16, 2021, 08:48:56 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (April 10 - 16, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 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 – 4” (April 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8359.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7505.0)
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3. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Bedlam when the verb shows up far too late in a long sentence” (April 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6325.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “So now as it was then, this is the world in 854 words” (Prepositions of Motion and Location) (April 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6615.0)
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5. Advocacy Against Bad Textbooks Retrospective: “Deliberately and intentionally miseducating the Filipino” (April 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7511.0)
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6. Secret Formula You Might Be Interested to Know: “Seeking immortality through technology and primitive diet” (April 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6211.0)
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7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (April 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4123.0)
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8. You Asked Me this Question Retrospective: “The problem with overellipted sentence constructions” (April 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8180.0)
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9. Intriguing Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘My salad days,’ ‘the whole nine yards,’ and other idioms” (April 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)
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10. Meditations for Our Digital Age: A Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (April 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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11. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7501.0)
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12. Getting to Know English: “Using the right tense for reported speech” (April 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8179.0)
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13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “It’s a Beautiful, Beautiful World After All!” (April 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6860.0)
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14. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Two magnificent performances of ‘The Prayer,’ spaced 10 years apart” (April 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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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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