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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 05, 2021, 08:14:14 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (July 31 - August 6, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(00 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 19 (August 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8430.0)
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2. Getting to Know English Better: “Precisely when is ‘were’ in the indicative or subjunctive mood?” (August 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7628.0)
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3. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Precisely when is a verb linking or an auxiliary?” (July 31, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8014.0)
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4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineer the human brain to make ourselves smarter?” (August 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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5. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the material fallacies – 3” (August 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6996.0)
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6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s obtuse, even distasteful, to say that seeing a doctor is ‘pleasurable’” (August 3, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7508.0)
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7. Advice and Dissent: “The prophet of Gaia feels the climate change issue is ‘as severe as war’” (August 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8017.0)
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8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Wonderfully Described Definitions” (August 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5952.0)
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9. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Angel Casillan's “A Secret Love” (August 2, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1129.0)
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10. Use and Misuse: “A style guide for writing and publishing in English (July 31, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7761.0)
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11. Resolving a Contentious Grammar Usage: “The tough choice between ‘whoever’ and ‘whomever’” (July 31, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6991.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why many young writers prefer ‘beneath’ to ‘under’ or ‘below’” (July 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=923.0)
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13. Readings in Language: “Travails with learning just a smattering of Latin”” (July 30, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8249.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Are the phrases 'quick perusal' and 'careful perusal' redundant expressions?” (August 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8018.0)
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15. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Lea Salonga-Josh Groban duet of ‘The Prayer’ in Manila” (August 5, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6768.0)
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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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