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The Latest Buzz! => Site Announcements => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on February 09, 2023, 11:22:11 AM
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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 28 - February 3, 2023) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 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 – 6” (February 9, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8752.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “The thorny choice between ‘whether it is’ and ‘whether it be’” (February 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7850.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “The flexible positions of participial phrases” (February 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7412.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8142.0)
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5. When What’s Meant Isn’t Exactly What’s Said: “The nature of true idioms” (February 5, 2023) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6789.0)
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5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Teaching our children to think logically” (February 5, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6879.0)
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6. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism – 3” (February 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8323.0)
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7. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need for genuine leisure instead of a mad, unending pursuit of wealth” (February 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2545.0)
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8. Language Humor at its Finest: “Memorable quotes from famous celebrities of yesteryears” (February 7, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7411.0)
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9. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Religious teaching may just make criminals justify their crime, study suggests” (February 8, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5367.0)
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10. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6443.0)
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11. Looking Forward to Lovers’ Day: Maximo Tumbali’s “Valentine’s Day is a Celebration of Love” (February 10, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7853.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Michel Montaigne as influential contemporary writer for all time” (February 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=816.0)
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13. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to solve quadratics” (February 4, 2023) (https://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8143.0)
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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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