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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 12, 2021, 07:45:43 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 7 - 13, 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 20 (August 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8433.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “Do you agree that ‘Yes.’ cannot be considered as a sentence?” (August 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8428.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8,2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7637.0)
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4. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adjective clauses for conciseness” (August 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7013.04)
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5. Why Some of Us are Saints, Heels, or Psychopaths: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (August 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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6. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (August 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a Used Jar” (August 11, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6743.0)
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8. Getting into Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 1” (August 9, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7011.0)
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9. Getting to Know The Tenses Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7638.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “50 put-down one-liners about men—by women, of course!” (August 12, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1330.0)
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11. Matters of Academic Performance Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (August 8, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7009.0)
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12. Getting to Know English Lookback: “Handling pronouns with unclear antecedents” (August 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7763.0)
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13. Revisionist Look at Alexander the Great: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6,2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=322.0)
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14. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 6, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0)
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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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