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PLAYLIST UPDATE (JANUARY 12 - 18, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(16 new postings):
1. Getting to Know English Better: “We shouldn’t mistake mass nouns for collective nouns” (January 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7825.0)
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2. Retrospective on a Mistaken Notion About Idioms: “Good writing avoids clichés, not idiomatic expressions” (January 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
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3. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “A serious bad grammar syndrome” (January 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
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4. Provocative Retrospective Worth Pondering Again: “How society favors the beautiful in practically all aspects of life” (January 17, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2063.0)
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5. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “12 scholars on the nonfiction books that profoundly changed their minds” (January 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
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6. Retrospective To An Audacious Speculative Reading: “Is consciousness a magical-mystery show that we stage in our own heads?” (January 16, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1308.0)
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7. Settling a Vexing Word-Choice Problem: “Is ‘presently’ present or future?” (January 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=295.0)
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8. Retrospective on the Limits of Modality: “Do we say ‘May you?’ or ‘May you please?’?” (January 15, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6510.0)
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9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “How the perfect participle and the present participle differ” (January 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5878.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “What the expression ‘if anything’ means” (January 14, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7366.0)
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11. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Oh the many advantages of speaking more than just your mother tongue!” (January 13, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6329.0)
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12. Views and Commentaries: “The Year of the Pigs” (January 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7821.0)
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13. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Coping with our inability to predict cataclysms where it matters most” (January 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The pitfalls of not providing sentences with a clear subject” (January 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6315.0)
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15. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “Is yelling ‘greetings!’ or ‘cheers!’ at the start of a letter acceptable?” (January 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=989.0)
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16. Language Humor At Its Finest: “31 flaky nuggets of wisdom from a jar” (January 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6225.0)
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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)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/Charlotte_Church-Josh Groban_The Prayer-1A.jpg) (http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/charice_canadiantenors-3B.jpg)
2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6738.0)
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
(http://josecarilloforum.com/imgs/LovelyCliches-6.jpg)
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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