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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 10 - 16, 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 16 (July 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8416.0)
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2. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Which is correct and why? “I didn’t (see, saw) her” (July 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6317.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When even the passive voice isn’t enough” (July 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (July 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=395.0)
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5. The Hazards of Modifier Misplacement: “When ‘only’ goes haywire” (July 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=784.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest: “30 of the most humorous quotables you’d come by these worrisome days” (July 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2007.0)
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7. Time Out From Grammar: “Scientist says 150 is the most number of friends one can comfortably have” (July 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1536.0)
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8. Going Deeper Into English Retrospective: “33 modern English essays” (July 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=20.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Do we say ‘I hope you’d get well soon” or “I hope you’ll get well soon”? (July 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=707.0)
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10. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “A fresh, more definitive retelling of the history of the Roman Empire” (July 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2409.0)
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11. My Media English Watch Retrospective:: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (July 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7016.0)
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12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The craft of writing headlines and titles – 1” (July 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7994.0)
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13. Getting to Know English: “How many types of adverbial clauses are there in English?” (July 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6321.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question: “Should the law and lawyers casually say ‘plea of guilty’ and ‘plea of innocent’?” (July 10, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=248.0)
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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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