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Can people please stop saying "moral" when they mean "morale"? It's really starting to tick my boxes.

My troops are moral -- they help old ladies cross the road, don't drink, and don't get into fights.

My troops have morale -- they are brave in the face of enemy fire.

This is a public service announcement in the fruitless search for better English. [:)]

Lighten up Francis, alot of people on this forum are probably either non-native English speakers, or typing something in a game forum without doing a spellcheck. If that's OK with you...

He's cool. No need to get riled by it.

But I chock it up to all us dang redneck Yanks with our uncivilized ways.

ORIGINAL: delatbabel

Can people please stop saying "moral" when they mean "morale"? It's really starting to tick my boxes.

My troops are moral -- they help old ladies cross the road, don't drink, and don't get into fights.

My troops have morale -- they are brave in the face of enemy fire.

This is a public service announcement in the fruitless search for better English. [:)]

Ok thanks.
From now on, as a non-native English speaker, besides trying to transform my thoughts in sentences, I have to strive to do it in a manner that does not tick your boxes (whatever that means[:)])....

Is there something wrong, with being right? Is there something wrong with telling people when they are wrong?

This message is brought to you by the Pedants Society Youth Club: Helping Others Spell...[:D]

I blame it on texting shorthand myself. The cell phone texting is the beginning of the end of proper spelling in the English world![:D]

The English language evolves, it adapts and it's end is as yet unwritten.[8D]

And the moral of WitE is:

Never invade Russia, or start any land war in Asia for that matter.

I agree with the OP. And I'll add to the list "corp" for "corps,"

and "your" for "you're,"

and "there" for "their" and "they're,"

and "definately" for "definitely,"

and "it's" for "its,"

and most of all, using a damn apostrophe when making a plural! ... as in "I am using the German's to invade the Ukraine with their tank's and gun's."

[:@][:@][:@][:@]

But, I feel better now. Time for an adult beverage.

While we're on the subject, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is a great book!

I thinck som spellling errorrz from forigners shold bee tollerated! Nattive spikerz shoold be punnished haard! [:D]

Yes draw and quarter the lazy bastards!!!!![;)]

What an unnessary discussion!
The word "moral" is the original German word for the correct one "morale" in English.
I think, as the attackers, they have their own right to use their own "Moral"!
[;)]

ORIGINAL: Tarhunnas

I thinck som spellling errorrz from forigners shold bee tollerated! Nattive spikerz shoold be punnished haard! [:D]

Vor zis you vill be made to pay mein frend...

Or... why don't we all adopt spiffingly good WW2 RAF accents chaps? I say! Jolly good idea, what?

And the morel of this story is...

ORIGINAL: bjmorgan

I agree with the OP. And I'll add to the list "corp" for "corps,"

Hey, as long as they don't spell it 'corpse'...[8|]

ORIGINAL: redmarkus4

Or... why don't we all adopt spiffingly good WW2 RAF accents chaps? I say! Jolly good idea, what?

"Cabbage crates up the blue end! Sausage squad dropping ten penny ones in the custard!"[:D]


No, I think German or Russian should be the obligatory standard for this forum.[;)]

ORIGINAL: Cunki

What an unnessary discussion!
The word "moral" is the original German word for the correct one "morale" in English.
I think, as the attackers, they have their own right to use their own "Moral"!
[;)]

+1 [:D]

ROFLMAO

And doan none o' yo folks start hitten on us acranomers neither! [;)]

ORIGINAL: Tarhunnas
I thinck som spellling errorrz from forigners shold bee tollerated! Nattive spikerz shoold be punnished haard! [:D]

Nice. [:)]

The main point is that the value of English is that, despite any 'errors' (see above,) it can still be understood and the morale here is that people express their views and can be understood, however it is written.

ORIGINAL: Fänrik Stål
"Cabbage crates up the blue end! Sausage squad dropping ten penny ones in the custard!"[:D]

"Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie."