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1. Getting to Know English: “How elliptical sentences differ from elliptical clauses” (May 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7952.0)
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2. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Those troublesome modifiers of countable or uncountable nouns!” (May 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7560.0)
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3. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “What the teacher says and what the teacher means” (May 24, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7070.0)
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4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Loving, at times kooky homage to a master English prose stylist” (May 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1506.0)
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5. The Great Shift to Pragmatic Language: “Transitioning from academic to business English” (May 22, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6903.0)
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6. Language Humor at its Finest Retrospective: “28 + 1 Funny Signs Found on Real Businesses” (May 23, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=869.0)
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7. Media English Watch: “Does ‘journalese’ afflict Philippine journalism?” (May 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7951.0)
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8. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Understanding the human mind and the roots of social behavior” (May 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1493.0)
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9. Interesting Reading You Might Have Missed: “The age-old debate over ‘It’s not you, it’s (me, I)’ flares up again” (May 21, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6345.0)
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10. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “77 One-Line Clean Jokes” (May 18, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1585.0)
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1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0)
(Originally posted November 10, 2018)
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2. 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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3. 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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(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
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5. 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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6. “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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7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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8. “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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9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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10. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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