[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini

[mayqel qunenoS]

De'vID:
> What's wrong with {*Christ* bov nubwI' DIS wa'}

It is perfectly fine for expressing "before christ"; but how would you
express "after christ" ?

qunnoq

On Sep 22, 2017 8:45 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:39 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2017 19:23, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is the same as in English. If I say "It happened in the year
>> 300" no one knows if I mean CE or BCE, but they assume I mean CE.
>>
>> If we had an easy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that
>> for BCE.
>>
>>
>> But BCE years are not negative years. There's no "year zero".
>>
>
> They kind of are though. They increase as you go backwards, just as
> negative numbers do. I'm not suggesting this is the best way to do it, just
> how I'd probably chose to do it without any guidance from Maltz.
>
>
>>
>> What's wrong with {*Christ* bov nubwI' DIS wa'} etc?
>>
>
> I'd say it has the same problem that lead to the creation of CE and BCE
> over AD and BC in the first place. You have to know who, or what, this
> "Christ" is.
>
> qurgh
>
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