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Title: Playlist Update (August 15 - 21, 2020) for the Forum Gateway on Facebook
Post by: Joe Carillo on August 22, 2020, 02:13:47 PM
PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 15 - 21, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
18 new postings, 10 classic 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: “When can history be narrated in the present tense?” (August 20, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8258.0)

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2. Getting To Know English Better: “Some baffling aspects of inverted sentences” (August 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7656.0)

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3. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The quixotic quest for good teachers” (August 22, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=120.0)

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4. You Asked Me This Question Retrospective: “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7038.0)

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5. My Media English Watch Retrospective: “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?” (August 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4947.0)

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6. You Asked Me This Question: “Big confusion over the small word ‘to’” (August 21, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7650.0)

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7. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Noble thoughts in similar jeopardy” (August 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0)

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8. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “The pause that refreshes” (August 19, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6920.0)

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9. Back to the Grammar Basics Retrospective: “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7032.0)

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10. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Do kingfishers eat butter?” (August 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7652.0)

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11. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Piecès de résistance in Hollywood moviemaking” (August 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6814.0)

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12. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “A father’s letter to his son’s teacher” (August 18, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7.0)

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13. Logic and Critical Thinking: “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 2” (August 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7028.0)

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14. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “194 cutting-edge readings about recent scientific news” (August 16, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6569.0)

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15. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Writing to get that job” (August 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7646.0)

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16. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “Use a pun, go to jail” (August 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=894.0)

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17. Getting to Know English Better: “Making nominalization work for our prose” (August 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7647.0)

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18. Powerful Tool for Organizing and Clarifying Ideas: “Maintaining parallelism of long serial grammar elements” (August 15, 2020) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7023.0)

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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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