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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on August 19, 2021, 07:47:28 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 14 - 20, 2021) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(15 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 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8435.0)
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2. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2” (August 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7028.0)
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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6920.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7023.0)
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5. Logic and Critical Thinking Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific news” (August 16, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.0)
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6. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dad, do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 17, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7652.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)
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8. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 15, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7647.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo: “Writing to get that job”--even in the pandemic era (August 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7646.0)
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10. Guideposts on Disaster Preparedness: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (August 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The strange grammar of ‘need’ as modal auxiliary” (August 14, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8026.0)
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12. Getting to Write Much Better English: “Reducing adverb clauses for brevity” (August 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7018.0)
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13. Retrospective on the Printed Word: “In its earliest days, book publishing wasn’t such a dignified enterprise” (August 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=859.0)
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14. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Indignities in American minor” (August 13, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
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15. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in jeopardy” in the Forum now! (August 19, 2021) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0)
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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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