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PLAYLIST UPDATE (APRIL 6 - 12, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(12 new postings):
1. You Asked Me This Question: “A full-dress review of English preposition usage – 3” (Time and duration) (April 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7917.0)
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great Titles in the Making” (April 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0)
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3. Getting to Know English Retrospective: “Hyphenating compound modifiers for clarity” (April 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7505.0)
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4. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “A quick review of the English comparatives” (April 12, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7504.0)
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5. A Retrospective for Our Digital Age: "The Tree of Life" (April 11, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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6. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Subordination and ordering of ideas in English journalism” (April 10, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7502.0)
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7. Getting To Know English Better Retrospective: “‘Nor’ doesn’t always need ‘neither’ to function” (April 9, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7501.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question: “How does the meaning of ‘I’d ask of you’ differ from ‘I’d ask you’?” (April 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7915.0)
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9. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Things I’d hate to see in job applications” (April 7, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6539.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (April 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=894.0)
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11. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “Writer-actor Stephen Fry’s response to grammar Nazis” (April 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6123.0)
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12. A Meditation You May Want to Share Right Now: “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.” (April 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6198.0)
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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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