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Title: Playlist Update (Nov. 18 - 24, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on November 24, 2017, 02:42:48 PM
To My Facebook Friends and Fans,

For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:

PLAYLIST UPDATE (Nov. 18 - 24, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):

1. Dealing with annoying English grammar errors (6th in a series of 14): “Intransitive verbs forced to act as transitive ones” (November 24, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7241.0)

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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (November 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=271.0)

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3. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Is there life beyond the universe that we know?” (November 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=452.0)

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4. Full-Scale Review of the Noun as Part of Speech: “Getting to know the noun phrase better” (November 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7239.0)

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5. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “As one goes way past the prime of one’s life” (November 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=624.0)

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6. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Nakakagigil’ remains lost in the English translation” (November 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=78.0)

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7. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Did that newspaper columnist commit an egregious grammar error?” (November 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7236.0)

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8. A Parenting Letter Revisited: "Dear Mama and Papa” (November 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6219.0)

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9. Dealing with annoying English grammar errors (5th in a series of 14): “Verbs positioned too far from the subject” and “Subject-verb disagreement” (November 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7234.0)

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10. Language Humor At Its Finest: “29 eye-catching palindromes for your delectation” (November 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=930.0)

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11. You Asked Me This Question: “How the expletive ‘there’ works in inverted sentences” (November 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7231.0)

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12. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)

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13. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Usage of the phrase ‘on the ground’ in official circles got out of hand” (November 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6729.0)

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14. You Asked Me This Question: “Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences” (November 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7229.0)

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15. Retrospective from The Forum Lounge: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (November 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1365.0)

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16. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Inoculating ourselves against all those journalistic nonsense” (November 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=368.0)

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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):

1. 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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2. “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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3. 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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4. “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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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
   (Reposted January 18, 2017)

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6. “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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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
    (Posted December 30, 2016)

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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
    (Posted October 27, 2016)

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