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My screen saver taught me a new word claustral - At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it.

Daily idiom: "keep your head down" Our new manager is terrible - he screams at people for the smallest mistake. I'm just going to keep my head down, get my work done and look for a new job.

Phrase of the Day: fons et origo

Daily idiom: "tit for tat" Tit for tat voting on posts is not allowed on Stack Exchange sites. Users should vote on the content of the posts and not retaliate with down-votes, or pay for up-votes on their posts by up-voting someone else's post.

Advice of the day: "tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip" W.Churchill

Daily idiom: swing for the fences I'm going to swing for the fences with this presentation and hope that management is impressed enough to promote me.

Daily idiom: “wiggle room” We try to leave some wiggle room in the budget just in case we have unexpected expenses.

Daily idiom “dish it out”. I made fun of hockey one time, and now the entire team is teasing me every time they see me. Well, if you can’t take it, you shouldn’t dish it out.

Word of the Day: amelioration

Here is a new word I learnt today - Kerfuffle!

Word of the day: bienvenue

Happy new year

Happy new year

@AIQ I didn’t resign because I wanted to pressure the company to reinstate Monica; I resigned because I don’t want to be associated with a company where a person who acts the way Ms. Chipps acts is in a position of power. So while I’m happy Monica settled her dispute, it doesn’t change anything for me.

Merry Christmas to old and new friends !

But it's unfair to portray the events like they support Monica because shes's an underdog. They side with her because, well, she's right.

Before buying a dictionary, I always check that it has pronouns included. That's how you avoid the problem Kentaro's facing now.

You're being very absolutist about it

idiom of today: live off the backs of someone

I do wish it had an origin story and, along with it, a Marvel cinematographication.

@M.A.R. By the way, when you cross a sheep with a kangaroo, you get a woolly jumper. (:

wow I got a hat

to can-cook is to cook canned food without removing the food from the cans

@AIQ my advice: enjoy the site, enjoy helping learners, enjoy responding, but stop engaging outside the Q&A realm. Avoid discussions like the plague, it will only upset you more. Free expression (I guess I have to state the obvious, excludes incidents of bullying and any forms of discrimination and disrespect) is not possible here.

There is no good faith since the CoC (code of conduct) was updated. Too many things are shrouded because...I don't know. It used to be that you had people like Shog9, Monica and Jon Ericson who knew exactly what to say and when. Then things returned on an even keel. Instead we have people who hide behind the CoC and use that to deflect criticism and questions.

@AIQ I'm on shaky grounds here, so I have to be careful if I'm not I will get suspended for a year, and I don't want that. It's gotten to a point on SE where deleting discussions and putting out statements which give a biased view of what was said has now become the norm.

This is a big problem - people want to do things behind doors - that is not something I can agree with. I'd have the community make the decision, not mods of other sites, not CMs who have no connection to ELL. Someone who cheated to gain reputation points, should never have been allowed to run for mod in the first place. And it was many many months ago when I raised this issue with the mod team. I was told that the CMs were aware of this and they were looking into it.

But nothing was done and they ran for mod. Many of the voters vote based on candidate's reputation points. And I knew they'd win based on that.

Okay, the CMs are really pissing me off now. Stop deleting my comments. Let the community know the truth and decide for themselves.

Where would I look for "the official statement" once things have been sorted out?

Who knows though. Let's just hope the silence is deliberation and not just acting slowly or trying to cover things up.

@ColleenV what's with the silence by SE? No official statement? Announcement? Is there the remotest chance that once the suspension has ended the newly-elected moderator regains their position? Surely not?

Word of the Day: churnalism