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(10 new postings):
1. Use and Misuse: “Use of ‘hopefully’ and other grammar bugbears” (May 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7959.0)
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2. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “When an English teacher prescribes an awful subject-agreement blunder” (May 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6494.0)
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3. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “Developing the confidence to match ‘confident’ with the right preposition” (May 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7567.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent: “To survive, democracy needs to find a way to break its confidence trap” (May 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6409.0)
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5. Language Humor at its Finest: “A Great Stand-up Comic’s Thoughts About Life and Sundry Things” (May 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1507.0)
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6. Use and Misuse Retrospective: “It’s foolhardy to stop learning English grammar just like that!” (May 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7572.0)
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7. You Asked Me This Question: “Is it grammatical to use ‘respective memorandum’ in court decisions?” (May 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7571.0)
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8. Students’ Sounding Board: “The semantic difference between the present and the past tense” (May 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7566.0)
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9. Getting to Know English Better Retrospective: “Using appositives for texture and depth in prose” (May 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6910.0)
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10. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “Unequal Englishes, Wronging English, Elitist English, Standard Philippine English” (May 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7564.0)
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11. Badly Written, Badly Spoken Retrospective: “It’s unwise to drop the helping verb ‘do’ in emphatic sentences” (May 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6522.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “A subject-verb agreement peculiarity of inverted sentences” (May 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7563.0)
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13. You Asked Me This Question: “Why the word ‘bloom’ has no ‘s’ in ‘Plant a tree and see hope bloom’” (May 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7558.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
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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4. “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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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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