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Title: Playlist Update (May 22 - 28, 2021) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on May 29, 2021, 09:43:38 AM
PLAYLIST UPDATE (May 22 - 28, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 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” (Paused this week, to continue with Part 10 on June 3, 2021)

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2. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6522.0)

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3. Getting to Know English Better: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6910.0)

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4. Time Out From English Grammar: “Finding the diamond in a slush pile of unpublishable books” (May 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1077.0)

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5. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “A great stand-up comic’s thoughts about life and sundry things” (May 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1507.0)

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6. You Asked Me This Question:  “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7563.0)

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7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)

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8. The Forum Lounge:  “Reasons why people fail the bar exams—poor grammar, deficient writing skills” (May 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8200.0)

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9. Once Again, Back to the English Grammar Basics: “Choosing the right connectives for our ideas – 1” (May 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6907.0)

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10. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!”  (May 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7560.0)

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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses”  (May 23, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=869.0)

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12. The Lounge Retrospective: “Parenting Letter: Dear Mama and Papa”  (May 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6219.0)

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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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