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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 22, 2021, 12:22:38 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 17 - 23, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(17 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 17 (July 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8420.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How to use the phrases ‘was/were to be’ and ‘was/were to have been’” (July 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=249.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Open secret to writing English prose that leaps out from the page” (July 22, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6372.0)
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4. Students’ Sounding Board: “What’s the correct format for writing dates in scientific literature?” (July 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1711.0)
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5. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Strategies for avoiding tedious repetition of words in English” (July 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5969.0)
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6. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “To face life’s tough challenges, do we need fairy tales more than ever?” (July 21, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6398.0)
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7. Language Humor at its Finest: “45 puns that can make you do jail time” (July 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=894.0)
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8. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Two exceptionally instructive cases of bad English in media” (July 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6973.0)
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9. Getting Into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 1” (July 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6972.0)
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10. Saying Your Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: Vin09’s “How Light Dawns on Us” (July 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8245.0)
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11. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?” (July 20, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5686.0)
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12. Essays by Jose Carillo: “‘Like’ and ‘such as’ are such slippery grammar trippers” (July 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=310.0)
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13. Their Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Five lay bare their thoughts on language, suffrage, carnage by gunfire” (July 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=717.0)
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14. Use and Misuse: “Getting rid of wordy beginnings for our writing” (July 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6969.0)
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15. You Asked Me This Question: “When people ask a question within a question” (July 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1588.0)
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16. Time Once More for an All-Time Forum Classic: “70 English idiomatic expressions sometimes bungled by Pinoys” (July 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=721.0)
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17. You Asked Me This Question “How the three kinds of objects work in English” (July 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7832.0)
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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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