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PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 1, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Let’s get acclimatized to the country’s weather terminology” (February 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7871.0)
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2. Refresher on an Important English Grammar Basic: “The perils of using double negative constructions” (February 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6820.0)
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3. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (March 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: Gerry T. Galacio's “Where’s the verb on that sentence?” (February 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7869.0)
Grammar Joust: “Where’s the verb in that sentence?” (February 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7869.0)
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5. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “On English and Esperanto as bridging languages in multilingual countries” (February 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=219.0)
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6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The need to avoid officious stock phrases when writing or speaking” (February 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6818.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “It’s not good to strand a direct object at the end of the main clause” (February 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7444.0)
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8. A Provocative Reading You Might Have Missed: “Can bad sex in literary fiction be just as enlightening as good ones?” (February 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1097.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “A fascinating question on the modals of conjecture” (February 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7445.0)
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10. Dealing with the Primary Moods in English: "Wow, a devilishly equivocal English grammar question!” (February 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6817.0)
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11. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Galileo was too impolitic wholly debunking church dogma” (February 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5123.0)
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12. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Reverse-engineering the human brain to make ourselves smarter” (February 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5128.0)
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13. Advice and Dissent—Urgent, Very Timely Retrospective: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (February 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
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14. Getting To Know English Better: “Logic and language” (February 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=397.0)
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15. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “32 Words of Wisdom with a Humorous Touch” (February 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5028.0)
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16. You Asked Me This Question: “An encounter with an elliptical sentence (A syntax query)” (February 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7863.0)
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17. Refresher in the Basics of Expository Devices: “How ‘on the contrary’ and ‘to the contrary’ differ” (February 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=395.0)
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18. Retrospective: Interacting in English in Polite Society: “Good communicators hone the use of indirect questions to a fine art” (February 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6126.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (9 postings):
1. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=140.0)
(Originally posted June 19, 2009)
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2. 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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3. “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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4. 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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5. “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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6. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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7. “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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8. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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9. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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