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(24 new postings):
1. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “How to reduce adverb clauses to adverb phrases” (January 19, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6764.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question: “What does it mean to be asked ‘Are you understanding me?’” (January 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7377.0)
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3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A serious grammar syndrome” (January 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “How infinitive phrases work” (January 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7374.0)
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5. A Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Did Mona Lisa have high cholesterol, and is Newton’s apple story authentic?” (January 18, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=499.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question: “How ‘mine’ works as pronoun or adjective but not as determiner” (January 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7373.0)
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7. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6760.0)
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8. A Provocative Retrospective Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2063.0)
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 17, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=961.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question: “Once and for all, when do we use ‘fewer’ or ‘less’?” (January 16, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7369.0)
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11. A Subject-Adjective Agreement Advice Worth Repeating: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (January 16, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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12. Retrospective To An Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1308.0)
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13. A Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
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14. A Caveat That’s a Stumbling Block to Writing: “The frequent use of ‘I’ isn’t necessarily an awful thing” (January 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6759.0)
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15. A Sports Reporting Retrospective: “Placing a modifier where it rightfully should be” (January 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7367.0)
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16. Retrospective - Even Modality Has Its Limits: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6510.0)
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17. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “Misplaced modifying phrase fractures Bohol earthquake news” (January 15, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6077.0)
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18. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ” (January 14, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5878.0)
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19. Advice and Dissent: “Clarifying a key term in the impeachment process” (January 14, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7363.0)
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20. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6329.0)
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21. A Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “Academics being conned into writing books nobody can buy” (January 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6531.0)
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22. My Thoughts Exactly Retrospective: “Some tangled tropes that annoy me” (January 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=713.0)
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23. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Human genome research casts doubt on Adam and Eve story” (January 13, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1702.0)
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24. Language Humor At Its Finest: “31 Flaky Nuggets of Wisdom from a Jar” (January 12, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6225.0)
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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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