Search Forum Home   Starfist: Main  Starfist 11: Flashfire  Ravenettes arme...  Re: Ravenettes armed forces   DavidS 988 posts www.novelier.com Joined 1/23/2006 Re: Ravenettes armed forces Posted: 15 Feb 08 6:07 PM  flem wrote Well if its moral were talking about now you gotta remember the Confederations moral was low, being stuck in a bunker complex and having to deal with pompous leaders. The word is morale, more or less meaning good spirits. Moral is good behavior. Skink 1068 posts Joined 12/17/2007 Re: Ravenettes armed forces Posted: 19 Feb 08 3:00 PM David, you should be an English Teacher. You'd make a good one;) DavidS 988 posts www.novelier.com Joined 1/23/2006 Re: Ravenettes armed forces Posted: 19 Feb 08 10:42 PM English is a difficult language to learn to spell. Unlike other Germanic languages, English has been heavily influenced by Scandinavian languages and French. We've also adopted numerous words from other languages, often changing the pronunciation without changing the spelling. And we have many instances where a letter isn't pronounced, but affects the pronunciation of other letters in the word. "Moral" and "morale" is a good example of that; the final "e" is silent, but it changes the pronunciation of the "a" and shifts the accent from the first to the second syllable. After you've written a few hundred thousand publishable words, you come to know these things. Finucane 1932 posts Joined 1/25/2006 Re: Ravenettes armed forces Posted: 20 Feb 08 2:18 AM I can verify what David says.  I was an English major.  I served in a British Thermal Unit during the war. Skink 1068 posts Joined 12/17/2007 Re: Ravenettes armed forces Posted: 22 Feb 08 7:15 AM  Well than why don't you become one of those old cool professors at a University? Like Professor Flinn at F.I.U. You know what just forget what I said I feel bad for calling you two Sci Fi authors old. MY BAD :(((((((  Page 4 of 5 Previous12345Next    Starfist: Main  Starfist 11: Flashfire  Ravenettes arme... Flat View Tree View Oldest To Newest Newest To Oldest