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PLAYLIST UPDATE (MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(23 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 2” (Motion and direction) (April 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7908.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Dealing with various levels of intransitivity” (April 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=188.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “24 timely quotes or misquotes from visionears or the foresightless” (April 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0)
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4. You Asked Me This Question: “When do we use the past progressive tense?” (April 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7907.0)
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5. Exigencies of the Times Retrospective: “On academic performance measures and job application forms” (April 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6860.0)
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6. The Very Basics of Courtesy in English: “The proper use of ‘can’ and ‘may’ as a mark of civility” (April 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6858.0)
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7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “Avoiding misuse of the conjoiner ‘as well as’ in newspaper reporting” (April 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1868.0)
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8. Readings in Language Retrospective: “When you really don't have anything to say but simply need to say it well” (April 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6124.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Why Pinoy writers strongly prefer ‘would’ and ‘could’” (Parts 1, 2, 3) (April 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6689.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How long should a sentence be to effectively deliver an idea?” (April 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6978.0)
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11. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “19 Fun Quotable Quotes to Brighten Up Your Day” (April 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6022.0)
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12. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Dealing decisively with the ‘who’ vs. ‘whom’ conundrum” (April 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6855.0)
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13. No April Fools’ Joke, This Cautionary Retrospective: “Chief executives now a threatened species in the age of social media” (April 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6330.0)
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14. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “‘Pun-ography’: Wordplay to make you smile” (March 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2572.0)
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15. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Is it time to kill off the grand idea of Richard Dawkins’ ‘Selfish Gene’”? (March 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6175.0)
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16. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Oh, the sweet bird of happiness finally looks like it's in the bag!” (March 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6125.0)
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17. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “A cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (March 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6084.0)
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18. Students’ Sounding Board Retrospective: “How to use ‘to have been’ and ‘having been’” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1678.0)
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19. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Open secret to writing prose that leaps out from the page” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6372.0)
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20. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “With regard to ‘with regards to’ or as regards to’” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6853.0)
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21. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Measuring up to the human body’s perfection in architectural terms” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2291.0)
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22. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “The grammar of English conditional sentences” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6854.0)
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23. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “When Children Define Science in Their Own Terms” (March 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7080.0)
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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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