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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JUNE 24 - 30, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 postings, latest down to earlier postings):
1. Common travails in English spelling: “One-word, two-word mix-ups” (June 30, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=205.0)
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2. “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (June 29, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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3. “The preposition as another type of functional connective – 4” (June 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6939.0)
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4. Retrospective: “Three years apart, two SOS about ‘resulting to’ and ‘resulting in’” (June 28, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6718.0)
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5. A special worth watching again and again: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude” (June 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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6. “Noun clauses as subjects don’t obey the sequence-of-tenses rule” (June 27, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6722.0)
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7. “Using big data, research validates Pollyanna ‘Feel Happy’ Hypothesis” (June 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6420.0)
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8. “Hard-hitting indictment of the law profession in the United States” (June 26, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5975.0)
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9. “The choice between direct quotes and reported speech” (June 25, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6938.0)
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10. “Stripping away the encrusted myth around Cleopatra’s life” (June 24, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0)
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11. “Should a noun modified by ‘respective’ always be plural in form?” (June 24, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6503.0)]
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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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