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PLAYLIST UPDATE (NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 6, 2019) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(18 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. Getting to Know English Better: “How the two types of English determiners work” (December 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8107.0)
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2. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses differ” (December 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7270.0)
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3. The Forum Lounge: “Once Again, How to Say ‘Merry Christmas!’ in 75 of the World’s Languages” (December 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4128.0)
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4. Readings in Language Retrospective: “Bracing nuggets of wisdom about the writing process” (December 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=975.0)
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5. Lookback to a Provocative Parody: “The harm that PowerPoint does to the way we think and speak” (December 6, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6630.0)
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6. A Media Language Critique: “A crash course in politically correct English” (December 5, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6256.0)
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7. A Holiday Season Reading: “Just a little bit of history about ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’” (December 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6115.0)
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8. You Asked Me This Question: “The proper use of the tenses in conditional sentences” (December 4, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7264.0)
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9. You Asked Me This Question: “A gerund acting as subject is always considered singular” (December 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8105.0)
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10. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Highly politicized physics and faulty news reporting” (December 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=327.0)
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11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “78 Fabulous Advice from Famous People” (December 3, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1319.0)
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12. You Asked Me This Question: “The uses of the ‘is to + verb’/‘are to + verb’ structure” (December 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7261.0)
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13. Time Out from English Grammar: “The disconcerting flux in scientific knowledge and how to cope with it” (December 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4123.0)
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14. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “No, not everything pertaining to the President is ‘presidential’” (December 2, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=780.0)
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15. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Baffling legal terminology in the impeachment process” (December 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2408.0)
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16. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “A breathtaking cardinal sin in media’s English grammar” (December 1, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=938.0)
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17. A Media English Watch Retrospective: “Once upon a famous Pinoy dog’s life-saving heroism” (November 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5956.0)
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18. A Book You Might Not Have Read Yet—But Should: “Sol Stein shows the way to strong, memorable, and marketable writing” (November 30, 2019) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=204.0)
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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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