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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on January 19, 2023, 12:28:03 PM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 14 - 20, 2023) 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. Getting To Write English Better: “Parallelism as a mark of good writing – 3” (January 19, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8739.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How ‘mine’ works as pronoun or adjective but not as determiner” (January 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7373.0)
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3. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7825.0)
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4. Time Out From English Grammar: “Sandro Botticelli's intricate paintings of woman’s hair” (January 20, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8741.0)
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5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A serious grammar syndrome” (January 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Better: “How infinitive phrases work” (January 18, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7374.0)
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7. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Writing: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 16, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds”” (January 16, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=932.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Fact-checking 44 misphrased statements from students’ science exams” (January 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2312.0)
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10. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=295.0)
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11. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6510.0)
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12. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misplaced modifying phrase fractures Bohol earthquake news” (January 15, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6077.0)
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13. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “The usage of ‘there is’/‘there are’ anticipatory clauses” (January 14, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8518.0)
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14. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 14, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6329.0)
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15. Never Too Late Just in Case You Missed It: “The Forum's 2023 New Year Retrospective Special” (January 1, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8728.0)
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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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