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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 3 - 9, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):
1. A Full-Dress Review of the Kinds of Verbs in English – 4: “How current linking verbs and resulting linking verbs work - 2” (November 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7755.0)
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2. My Media English Watch Lookback: “Shock-and-awe English in 2013 Bohol earthquake reportage” (November 8, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7016.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News headlines that went awry” (November 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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4. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “The linguistic distinction between ‘actress’ and ‘actor’ goes beyond sexism” (November 7, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=572.0)
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5. Getting to Know English: “When the object of the verb is the doer itself” (November 6, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7754.0)
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6. You Asked Me This Question: “Is ‘very’ such a useless word?” (November 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7753.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The proper tense to use when talking now about the past” (November 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7201.0)
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8. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “English grammar and usage: Defense and assault” (November 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=235.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A close encounter with wrong adverb usage” (November 5, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7203.0)
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10. Forum Advocacies: “To improve the quality of our minds, we Filipinos must learn to think critically” (November 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7752.0)
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11. A Language Reading You Might Have Missed: “Learning punctuation from usage rather than from school textbooks” (November 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6549.0)
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12. Desperation as Determinant in Preposition Usage: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (November 4, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7198.0)
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13. Use and Misuse: “When a comma is misused for linking two independent coordinate clauses” (November 3, 2018) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7751.0)
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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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