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PLAYLIST UPDATE (January 27 - February 2, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(21 new postings):
1. Getting To Know English Better: “The subjunctive and its functions – 2,” 3rd of a 6-part series on subjunctives (February 2, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7405.0)
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2. A Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6582.0)
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3. Getting To Know English Better: “The subjunctive and its functions – 1,” 2nd of a 6-part series on subjunctives (January 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7401.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “How participles and participial phrases work” (January 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7403.0)
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5. You Asked Me This Question: “Code words/catchwords vs. usual terms” (January 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7375.0)
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6. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Every language is a distinctively human model of logic and reality” (January 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6173.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Better: “The moods and attitude of English verbs,” 1st of a 6-part series on subjunctives (January 31, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7399.0)
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8. A Getting To Know English Refresher: “How the English personal pronouns inflect for case” (January 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6783.0)
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9. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Much deeper, more erudite analysis of language and rhetoric” (January 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1228.0)
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10. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “The need to equate things solely on comparable attributes” (January 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7103.0)
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11. ENCORE! Language Humor At Its Finest: “The perils of missing periods or forgetting commas” (January 30, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6478.0)
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12. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Physicist wows, then humiliates scientists with fool’s gold” (January 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=384.0)
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13. A Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Using synonyms to enliven prose” (January 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6780.0)
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14. A Basic English Grammar Refresher: “Why the nominative and subjective are lumped as just a single case” (January 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6781.0)
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15. Use and Misuse: “Avoidance of confusing fused or run-on sentences” (January 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7397.0)
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16. Time For Pre-Valentine’s Day Wordplay: “Goofy unofficial conversion table” (January 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6371.0)
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17. An Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Why do we find it pleasing to read stories we know to be untrue?” (January 28, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=950.0)
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18. Retrospective to a Provocative Education Reading: “Point counterpoint on why Asian-American students excel in the U.S.” (January 26, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6135.0)
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19. A Getting To Know English Retrospective: “We can count as many as 23 auxiliary verbs in English” (January 29, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6778.0)
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20. Getting To Know English Better: “How the three kinds of objects work in English” (January 27, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6777.0)
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21. Retrospective for Lovers’ Day This Month: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ enters the French lexicon” (January 27, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5976.0)
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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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