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(25 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 1”: The prepositions “in,” “at,” and “on” to indicate place and location (March 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7900.0)
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2. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “23 stunning, magically beautiful sights from all over the world” (March 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6153.0)
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3. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “A Cavalcade of Palindromes” (March 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=884.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “When an entire clause functions as a noun or adjective” (March 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7490.0)
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5. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Information technology and social networks as catalysts for reform” (March 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2171.0)
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6. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “University programs should do more teaching of language and not just literature” (March 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7487.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “The excessive use of ellipses beclouds the sense of sentences” (March 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6040.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “The harm that PowerPoint does to the way we think and speak” (March 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6630.0)
With a companion related serious study, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.”
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9. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “News Headlines that Went Awry” (March 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=917.0)
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10. Time Out from Grammar Retrospective: “Two memorable and truly inspiring commencement speeches” (March 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6878.0)
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11. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Taking note of awful information gaffes and obese rhetoric” (March 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6618.0)
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12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Giving a Touch of Authority to Our Prose” (March 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=171.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Using the serial comma isn’t just a matter of stylistic preference” (March 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0)
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14. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Is it correct to use the verb ‘invite’ as a noun?” (March 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=271.0)
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15. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “40 frank and not so humorous quotes about real life that should give us pause” (March 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5129.0)
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16. On a Lark Before Taking Your Summer Vacation: “Find out how intelligent you really are” (March 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6489.0)
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17. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Top 100 Funniest One-liners” (March 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1296.0)
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18. You Asked Me This Question: “Question about the grammar and semantics of a statement” (March 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7895.0)
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19. Going Deeper Into Language Retrospective: “The relative importance of main clauses and subordinate clauses” (March 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1105.0)
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20. Forum Lounge Retrospective: Read “Women…as explained by engineers” (March 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1742.0)
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21. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Disturbing high incidence of the faulty ‘taken cared of’ usage’” (March 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6762.0)
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22. An English Grammar Basics Refresher: “A puzzling peculiarity of grammatical objects in English” (March 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6849.0)
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23. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “The proper possessive adjective for the pronoun ‘everybody’” (March 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6437.0)
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24. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Avoiding sexism in our English” (March 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6847.0)
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25. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “My misgivings when people wish me more power” (March 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=973.0)
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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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