qurgh:
Maybe {tera' DIS wa'-pagh-pagh qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh, jagh luHIv} - "Terran year 100, before Terran year 0 happened, they attacked the enemy.", but that still feels clunky to me.
I agree. Since the c.e./b.c.e. construction is to be used as part of a larger sentence, if the construction which someone uses is long, then the result will probably be a long and difficult to understand sentence. So, so far, SuStel's {christ bov} -in my opinion- is superior. As far as the {bov motlh} is concerned, I don't know whether I would understand it to be "c.e.", unless someone had explained this to me first. I know it will sound strange, but in Greek there's no c.e./b.c.e. In order to express the year, someone has to use a.d./b.c. There is no other way, and if there is, it is so rare, that I have never come across it. The first time I read "c.e." in english, I had to google it to understand what it means.. And even then it felt strange. So, reading the {bov motlh}, there is no way I would understand the intented meaning. Now, qurgh, don't misunderstand me; the {bov motlh} is perfectly understandable for a native english speaker; it is just that it could be difficult for someone else, whose native language doesn't use the c.e./b.c.e. method. So, as a result of the above, I will use {christ bov nubwI'} for b.c./b.c.e. and SuStel's {christ bov} for a.d./c.e. qunnoq On Sep 22, 2017 8:54 PM, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
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@wizage.net> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:39 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 22, 2017 19:23, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh@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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