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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on May 21, 2021, 10:33:03 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 15 - 21, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(10 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 – Part 9” (May 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8379.0)
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2. Getting to Know English: “Using discourse markers for contextualizing ideas” (May 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7948.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (May 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1493.0)
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4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The triumph of English over Babel to become the language of science” (May 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6479.0)
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5. Getting to Know English Better: “Which,” “that,” and "who" and other grammar pitfalls (May 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6900.0)
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6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1585.0)
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7. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6345.0)
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8. Advice and Dissent: “Our personal destiny may already be hard-wired into our brain” (May 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7942.0)
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9. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (May 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6398.0)
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10. Major Faultline When Gender is Indeterminate: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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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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