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PLAYLIST UPDATE (Nov. 4 - 10, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):
1. 2nd of a series of 14: “The havoc that dangling modifiers do” (November 10, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7210.0)
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2. 4th of a series of 5: “4 specific applications of the parallelism rules” (November 9, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7209.0)
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3. Retrospective: “On evolving Gods, prehumans as food, and grammar’s impact on thought” (November 8, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=175.0)
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4. “Making use of the social media to polish one’s English” (November 7, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7208.0)
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5. A Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that went awry” (November 7, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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6. 2nd of a series of 14: “The footloose modifier and its three varieties” (November 7, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7205.0)
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7. A Time Out from English Grammar Retrospective: “The ever-changing standards for beauty over the centuries” (November 6, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=916.0)
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8. “A close encounter with wrong adverb usage” (November 5, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7203.0)
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9. Back to the Basics of the Tenses:“The proper tense to use when talking now about the past” (November 5, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7201.0)
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10. A Primordial Existential Riddle: David Lawrence’s “If a tree falls...” (November 4, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=987.0)
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11. Retrospective: David Crystal's “Making a Point” (November 4, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6549.0)
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12. “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 4, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7198.0)
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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)
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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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