Jose Carillo's English Forum
The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 08, 2021, 08:56:11 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 3- 9, 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” - Part 15 (July 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8412.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How to improve your written and spoken English by really trying” (July 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6945.0)
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3. English Grammar and Usage Problematics: “The difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘watching’ a movie” (July 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6952.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “Can the indefinite articles be used with uncountable nouns?” (July 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7607.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “‘What’ isn’t always singular when it leads off an assertion” (July 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8239.0)
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6. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (June 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=861.0)
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7. Getting To Know English “Six grammar questions that got the Forum’s ball rolling in 2009” (July 7, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6.0)
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8. Getting to Know English Better: “How the contrastive conjunctions ‘even though’ and ‘even if’ differ” (July 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6944.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Basic and advanced techniques for doing paragraph transitions” (July 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6052.0)
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10. Very Instructive Reading You Might Have Missed: “A taste of vintage Mencken” (July 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=52.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest:: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our times” (July 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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12. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “‘18 years old and above’ or ‘18 years old and older’?” (July 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7989.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “What’s the most influential academic book in the U.S. of the past 20 years?” (July 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7748.0)
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14. Very Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “Getting finicky over punctuation might just prove worth the effort” (July 1, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6137.0)
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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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