I agree with you, tsuwm. I never thought it would come to this. AWAD is under threat of losing, at least for me, the quality of the entertaining escape... a haven for serious lexical questions as well as for puns, a refuge for erudite etymology discussions (of the kind that would leave many of our near and dear glassy-eyed, as was brought up in another thread), a forum for learning about speech and ways of folks in other parts of the world... a cyber-land where you can say something and presume your interlocutors are kindred spirits (at least to a certain extent) who won't distort your words beyond all recognition, since we are all fairly intelligent and interested in language or we wouldn't be here in the first place. This forum is too good for such pettiness. And here's an emoticon: