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PLAYLIST UPDATE (DECEMBER 29 - JANUARY 4, 2018) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(13 new postings):
TEMPLATE: 
1. Getting To Know English Better: “How to use ‘can’ and ‘could’ and ‘will’ and ‘would’” (January 3, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7814.0
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2. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Great Titles in the Making” (January 4, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6751.0
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3. Looking Back to the Forum in 2018: “The grievous moral error of belief with no supporting evidence” (January 3, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7758.0
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4. Classic Grammar Baffler: “Should we use ‘there was’ or ‘there were’?” (January 3, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6057.0
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5. Getting To Know English Better: “How gerunds and infinitives work” (January 3, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7338.0
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6. Language Humor at its Finest: “Some really amazing anagrams” (January 2, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=961.0
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7. Media English Watch Retrospective: “A very serious case of a dangling subordinate clause” (January x, 2019)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=7335.0
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8. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Sissel Kyrkjebø sings ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for the New Year” (December 31, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6122.0
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9. Forum Year-Ender Retrospective: “6 personal essays over the years and 6 general-interest readings” (December 31, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/YES
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10. Language Humor at its Finest: “How to say ‘Happy New Year’ in any of 58 countries” (December 30, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=4536.0
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11. The Forum Lounge: “Why the Arabic numbers look the way they do” (December 30, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=2369.0
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12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Oodles of reasons to love (or hate) the Philippines!” (December 30, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1365.0
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13. Rizal Day Commemorative Feature: “A life as multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world” (December 29, 2018)
http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=6933.0
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CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (8 postings):
1. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart
(Originally posted January 22, 2017)
2. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping”
(Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
3. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day”
(Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
4. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?”
(Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
5. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome”
(Reposted January 18, 2017)
6. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts”
(Posted July 11, 2016)
7. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2
(Posted December 30, 2016)
8. “Indignities in American minor”
(Posted October 27, 2016)
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