[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini

[SuStel]

On 9/22/2017 3:15 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
> As someone who works directly with an American school system I know 
> for a fact that they teach children these days to use CE and BCE only. 
> They don't teach them AD and BC at all anymore.

They've also been teaching metric for decades. They taught it to me in 
the late '70s. A lot of good that's done.


> As I said before, I'm not trying to get anyone to use a specific date 
> system, just to be aware that if you use religious terminology in your 
> dates that some people may not understand.

They'll understand perfectly well. I'm pretty sure everyone who knows 
what CE and BCE mean know that they're substitutions for AD and BC. I'm 
also pretty sure if I went up to my teenage niece and quoted a date with 
"CE" at the end, she'd say "What's CE?" but if I said "AD" she'd know 
what I meant, whether or not she knows what AD stands for or what it 
means. I think I actually HAD this conversation with her a few years ago.

You're looking at things in an idealized, "that's what we teach and 
that's how it should be" kind of way, but that's not how it is.

So when mayqel asks for how to state dates as part of the "era of 
Christ," the answer isn't "you shouldn't mention Christ because some 
people may not understand." You can do what I did and translate it 
literally, or you can do what others did and look at how Klingons have 
stated Terran dates. But no one who thinks the current year is 2017 is 
going to be confused by "era of Christ." They know. Whether that's how 
you SHOULD say it or not, you'll be understood.

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