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PLAYLIST UPDATE (October 26 - November 1, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(24 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Precisely when do we use ‘request’ or ‘request for’?” (October 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8080.0)
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2. Essays by Joe Carillo Retrospective: “The Tree of Life” (October 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7187.0)
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3. Time Out From English Grammar: “Antonio Calipjo Go’s ‘Pebble in My Shoe, Stone in My Heart’” (October 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8081.0)
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4. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about contemporary scientific news” (November 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6569.0)
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5. Two Poetry Readings for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” (October 31, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7188.0)
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6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “8 readings for Halloween and All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day” (October 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7183.0)
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7. The Lounge Retrospective: “Overcome with Civil War deaths, Americans turned to spirit photography” (October 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7186.0)
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8. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “Epigraphs: Simply labels or motive engines for literary narratives?” (October 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=600.0)
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9. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “What do you do if Medusa gazes at you or Dracula bites your neck?” (October 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5686.0)
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10. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Unique, very creative Halloween greeting” (October 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6334.0)
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11. You Asked Me This Question: “Absolute phrases don’t function in the same way as appositives” (October 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7696.0)
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12. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The quest for answers on why the world exists to begin with” (October 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2789.0)
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13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “When educators befuddle” (October 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6773.0)
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14. Time Out From Grammar Retrospective: “How the human brain establishes and reinforces beliefs as truths” (October 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1599.0)
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15. Getting To Know English Better: “The perils of using back-formations” (October 29, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7744.0)
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16. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Is the sentence ‘It can be overcame’ grammatically wrong?” (October 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=793.0)
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17. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “A brand-new word for ‘French kiss’ finally enters the French lexicon” (October 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5976.0)
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18. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “The perils of misusing literary allusions in feature stories” (October 28, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1519.0)
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19. Essays by Joe Carillo: “When even the passive voice is’t enough” (October 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=162.0)
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20. Education and Teaching Retrospective: “The rocky road to idiomatic English” (October 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7655.0)
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21. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The psychometric test that promised to be an ‘X-ray to the soul’” (October 27, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7179.0)
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22. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Charles Aznavour sings a classic!” (October 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=464.0)
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23. Badly Written, Badly Spoken: “Thrown off by the highly officious and bureaucratic ‘regards’ idioms” (October 26, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6323.0)
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24. The Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Close encounters with enigmatic English syntax” (October 25, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6017.0)
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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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