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(22 new postings):
1. Rizal Day Commemorative Feature: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 29, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=506.0)
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2. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (16th in a series of 20): “8 – The misuse of prepositional phrases and prepositional idioms” (December 29, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7327.0)
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3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Book on the sentence-writing craft gets mixed reviews from critics” (December 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1560.0)
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4. An Essay on Language You Might Have Missed: “Using Grammar as a Tool for Persuasion” (December 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=88.0)
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5. For Service Above and Beyond The Call of Duty: “Search begins for the 2018 Metrobank Foundation Outstanding Filipinos” (December 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7326.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 3” (December 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7324.0)
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7. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Stunning and magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (December 2, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6153.0)
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8. A Language Humor At Its Best Retrospective: “24 puzzling imponderables” (December 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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9. A Grammar Retrospective That You Won’t Want To Miss: “Is it true that English has no future tense?” (December 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6019.0)
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10. An Essays by Jose A. Carillo Retrospective: “Fighting back against clichés” (December 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6745.0)
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11. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone, says neuroeconomist” (December 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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12. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Handy Latin phrases for outsmarting or annoying snotty associates” (December 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=861.0)
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13. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A hilarious cornucopia of 2014 jokes about English grammar and usage” (December 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6212.0)
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14. An Essay on Language That You Might Have Missed: “When saying it once isn’t enough” (December 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=183.0)
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15. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar errors (15th in a series of 20): “7 – The misuse of participles and participial phrases (2)” (December 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7320.0)
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16. Retrospective on a Great Singer in Popular Music History: “Rock star Freddie Mercury sings ‘Barcelona’ for the ages” (December 25, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7319.0)
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17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Romance math & miscellany” (December 24, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6117.0)
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18. A Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “Is it appropriate to say ‘Advanced or Advance Merry Christmas!’?” (December 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4422.0)
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19. With Apologies To Nobody, and With Malice Towards None: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (December 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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20. Retrospective on E-mail Correspondence with Late-Blooming Writer: “Never too late to pursue writing if you’ve got the talent” (December 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6081.0)
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21. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Humanity is evolutionarily hard-wired for God, psychologist argues in book” (December 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1278.0)
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22. An English Grammar Rule You Might Have Missed: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (December 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6716.0)
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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)
Playlist Update (Dec. 9 - 15, 2017) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
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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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