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(20 new postings):
1. Dealing With Annoying English Grammar Errors (14th in a series of 20): “7 – The misuse of participles (1)” (December 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7314.0)
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2. Getting To Know English Better: “The seven uses of noun clauses – 2” (December 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7313.0)
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3. An Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “English in a used jar” (December 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6743.0)
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4. Language Humor At Its Finest: “A cockeyed but penetrating definition of globalization” (December 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6461.0)
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5. A Twin Retrospective on Two Science-Fiction Masters: “Ray Bradbury’s stories: A gift of language and the imagination” and “H.G. Wells biography: ‘Another kind of life’” (December 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=648.0)
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6. An Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Of Fiascoes and Sycophants” (December 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6356.0)
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7. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “The often-derided expletive ‘there’ can sometimes be put to good use” (December 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7292.0)
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8. Retrospective on My Initiation to the Personal Computer: “Waltzing on the Web” (December 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6805.0)
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9. An English Grammar Test Retrospective: “Quick quiz on wayward modifiers” (December 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6741.0)
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10. A Christmas Feature Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour—singer, public activist, and diplomat—sings a classic” (December 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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11. Dealing with annoying English grammar errors (13th in a series of 20): “6 – Usage of nouns or pronouns in the wrong case (3)” (December 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7306.0)
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12. A Readings in Language Retrospective: “Are personal essayists for real or do they assume different personas?” (December 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1112.0)
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13. A Reading You Might Need About the Tenses: “The Historical, Literary, and Eternal Present” (December 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6713.0)
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14. Retrospective: An Essay on Writing “Things My English Teacher Never Taught Me” (December 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6740.0)
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15. Countdown for Your Pick Of Your Holiday Greetings: “8 More Days to Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in Any of 75 + 2 Languages” (December 18, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4128.0)
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16. A Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (December 71, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)
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17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 choice paraprosdokians to make sense of our lives” (December 10, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6408.0)
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18. Students’ Sounding Board: “Two baffling questions about modifying phrases” (December 17, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7294.0)
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19. A Retrospective on Life Itself: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.” (December 10, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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20. A Forum Christmas Special: “10 Enduring Remembrances of Christmases Past - Redux 7” (December 16, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6104.0)
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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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