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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 29, 2021, 05:29:41 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 24 - 30, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(19 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 18 (July 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8426.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The wisdom of routinely avoiding anticipatory ‘there is’/‘there are’ clauses” (July 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1734.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics” (July 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8143.0)
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4. Readings in Language: “Your pronouns and function words reveal a lot about you, says new book”’ (July 28, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1719.0)
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5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: Computer-coding a religion that can be acceptable to all of humanity (July 28, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7621.0)
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6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Sociologist cautions against overrelying on common sense” (July 29, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1572.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (July 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=976.0)
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8. Looking Back To Your Thoughts Exactly: Tonybau’s “Before and during the Covid-19 lockdown” (July 27, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8184.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The choice between ‘among’ and ‘between’ revisited” (July 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2245.0)
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10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Study suggests religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime” (July 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6972.0)
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11. Quick Explication For A Grammar Puzzler: “Is ‘None’ singular or plural?” (July 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.0)
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12. Language Humor at its Finest: “44 actual misphrased statements from students' science exams” (July 26, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2312.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (July 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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14. Enduring Non-Grammar Classic in the Forum: Ben Sanchez's “14 things my mother taught me” (July 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=733.0)
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15. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Five ostensibly factual expressions we need to take with a grain of salt” (July 25, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5930.0)
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16. The Forum Lounge: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (July 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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17. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Getting acclimatized to Philippine weather terminology” (July 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7006.0)
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18. Readings in Language: “Charming take on writers as not-so-great conversationalists” (July 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7214.0)
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19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A recurrent misuse of the preposition ‘between’” (July 24, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=279.0)
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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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