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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on June 11, 2021, 12:16:21 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 5 - 11, 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 11 (June 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8392.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “Aren’t English prepositions too difficult, confusing, and hard to learn?” (June 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8393.0)
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3. Students’ Sounding Board: "Top Filipina science high graduate defies the odds and the pandemic's challenges" (June 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8390.0)
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4. Disconcerting English Grammar Quirk: “When to use the bare infinitive and the full infinitive” (June 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6922.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The strength of materials and people’s folly” (June 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6425.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Should writers finish their compositions first before editing?” (June 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6919.0)
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7. Getting To Know English: “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 8” (June 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7974.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest: "34 business jokes and quotes to perk up our dreary days" (June 5,2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6908.0)
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9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Subject-verb agreement when using a noun phrase or gerund phrase” (June 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7580.0)
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10. (Not) Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Do people travel ‘for work’ or ‘to work’?” (June 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7975.0)
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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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