[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini

[SuStel]

On 9/22/2017 2:35 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
> I feel that same way about AD/BC. If you are a Christian, or familiar 
> with Christendom, then those terms make sense. If you aren't familiar 
> with that religion, then you'd have to Google this "Christ" person to 
> figure out that the dates have something to do with when some people 
> claim he was born. Since Greek culture is heavily Christian it makes 
> sense for you, but for someone in a non-Christian culture, they won't 
> know what you are talking about. There's even some cultures on Earth 
> that don't use the AD/CE-BC/BCE calendar at all. 

And yet the Skybox cards call their dates *tera' DIS,* as if they are 
used by the whole planet.

As children, most Americans have no idea what A.D. stands for, and some 
don't know what B.C. stands for. That doesn't stop them from saying /AD/ 
and /BC,/ though. /CE/ and /BCE/ are largely reserved for publications, 
and then only the more scholarly sorts. You don't need to know anything 
about Christ or Christianity to use /AD/ or /BC/, or to use Christ as an 
epoch.

Keeping time is largely a matter of convention, not logic. You don't 
need to understand conventions to use them.

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SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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