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To: Cyber Liberty

If I could get the your / you’re thing all fixed, then I would turn to the A.D. placement. I do not think I have ever seen that expressed as a concern.

I could argue that the Anno Domini is an appositive and that the correct form is 2014, A.D.


20 posted on 04/06/2014 11:56:42 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

And I would immediately surrender, because I am not an English teacher. I don’t know enough to say you’re wrong (there is a discussion of it on the Wiki page I linked, but we know those guys can be dorks).

I’ve seen it AD 2014 in older writings, which tells me the way I prefer it will die in my lifetime, because this is a “living” language. Apparently the form I prefer, the literal translation, is archaic.


21 posted on 04/06/2014 12:06:56 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: don-o; Cyber Liberty

Aw gee its six of one and half a dozen’ve a whole nother story!

What difference at this point does or dozen’t make??

Lol just kidding...I’m only glad to know there are even two people who care about such a thing in 2014-—one weigher an udder!


22 posted on 04/06/2014 12:08:59 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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