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PLAYLIST UPDATE (August 19 - 25, 2017) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(11 new postings, latest down to earlier postings):
1. “Slogans are meant to ambush the mind into quick acquiescence” (August 25, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7045.0)
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2. “Watching out against the fallacies of relevance – 3” (August 24, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7042.0)
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3. “Awful for a priest to think he’s infallible in his English” (August 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7040.0)
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4. “Playing it by ear when to use a gerund or infinitive” (August 23, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7039.0)
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5. “How different prepositions change the sense of verb phrases” (August 22, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7038.0)
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6. “Using some idiomatic variations of the preposition ‘about’” (August 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7036.0)
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7. “A rule of thumb for the absurdly bloated genre of memoir writing” (August 2, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1247.0)
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8. “How does ‘right of reply’ differ from ‘right to reply’?” (August 21, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4947.0)
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9. “When faulty logic overrides good grammar and semantics” (August 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7034.0)
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10. “Did Mona Lisa have high cholesterol, and is Newton’s apple story authentic?” (August 20, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=499.0)
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11. “Why some intransitive verbs appear to take an object” (August 19, 2017) (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7032.0)
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. 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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2. “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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3. 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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4. “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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5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6761.0)
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
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6. “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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7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6746.0)
(Posted December 30, 2016)
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8. “Indignities in American minor” (http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6721.0)
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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