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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 01, 2021, 02:14:39 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (June 26 - July 2, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 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 14 (July 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8408.0)
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2. (Not Really a) Use and Misuse Question: “What are substantive and attributive clauses?” (June 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1118.0)
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3. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Tough questions about sentence structure and pronoun usage” (June 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=886.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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5. Tricky Aspect of Reported Speech: “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule” (June 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6722.0)
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6. Education and Teaching Commentary: Antonio Calipjo Go's “What will be left for students to learn after the DepEd's latest K-12 curriculum review?” (June 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8406.0)
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7. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (June 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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8. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Just playing with words today for the sheer fun of doing it!” (June 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=514.0)
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9. Common Travails in English Spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (June 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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10. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Differentiating the use of ‘than’ and ‘than that of’” (June 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=940.0)
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11. Time Out From English Grammar:: “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (June 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5975.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (June 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6420.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don’t be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths!” (June 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=927.0)
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14. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as the mother of all paradigm shifts” (June 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=330.0)
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15. Going Deeper Into Language: “A Thousand and One English Poems” (June 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=29.0)
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16. Getting to Know English Test: “Is your English better than that of a competition-level high school senior’s?” (June 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=284.0)
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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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