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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 9 - 15, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Tough, counterintuitive aspects of English grammar - 1” (March 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7882.0)
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2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Don't be hoodwinked by numbers, for they may carry big untruths” (March 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=927.0)
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3. Finest in Language Humor Retrospective: “20 spot-on political quips for our times” (March 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6835.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better: “The dangers of overstating yourself” (March 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7466.0)
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5. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: Dave Barry’s “19 things it took me 50 years to learn” (March 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=976.0)
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6. Timely Discovery Worth Revisiting: “The chemistry of our morality hinges on a hormone” (March 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2540.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “How to make good progress in your English by really trying” (March 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6832.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (March 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7462.0)
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9. Retrospective of the Forum’s 2016 Year-End Folio: “Six personal essays and six general-interest readings” (March 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/YES)
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10. Unsettling Retrospective for Hero Worshippers: “The shocking lives of four famous but less than exemplary men” (March 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=622.0)
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11. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Clarifying a questionable notion about the proper use of ‘each’” (March 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6830.0)
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12. Wacky Phonetics You Might Have Missed: “English translated into Chinese in less than 5 minutes” (March 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6127.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “When writers decide to write, should they stick to what they know?” (March 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6187.0)
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14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “How genius is within everyone’s reach—but even wisdom, too?” (March 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=595.0)
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15. Intriguing Question on Possessive Adjectives: “Should an object agree with its modifying possessive adjective?” (March 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6827.0)
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16. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “When can ‘that’ be safely dropped in reported speech?” (March 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6829.0)
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17. You Asked Me This Question: “How the grammar of active and passive voice sentences differs” (March 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7458.0)
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18. Getting To Know English Better: “Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing” (March 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7456.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. 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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2. 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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3. “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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4. 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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5. “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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6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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7. “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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8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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9. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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