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PLAYLIST UPDATE (AUGUST 4 - 10, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “The historical present and rhetorical present tense” (August 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7638.0)
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2. Language Humor At Its Finest: “24 boggling imponderables to think through” (August 9, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=906.0)
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3. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “Using grammar as a tool for persuasion” (August 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7637.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “The virtue of elliptical sentence constructions” (August 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7636.0)
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5. The Forum Lounge: “Mocha’s methodology: Using the art of vulgarity,” Opinion by Maximo Tumbali (August 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7635.0)
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6. Getting to Know How to Punctuate with Finesse: “When using a parenthetical is necessary in a sentence” (August 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7004.0)
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7. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (August 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0)
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8. Alexander the Great and the Spartans - A Revisionist Look: “Peeling off the multilayered legends from ancient Greece” (August 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=322.0)
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9. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The English mealtime vocabulary” (August 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7633.0)
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10. Going Deeper Into English: “When even the passive voice isn't enough” (August 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question: “Can superlative attributes apply to any number of comparables?” (August 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7631.0)
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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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