When In Vietnam, Build Boats As The Romans Do

Science Magazine ^ | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone

[SunkenCiv]

Try a Google search for "preaching to the choir".

Thanks for bringing up that up for the four millionth time in an FR thread.

[RonF]

Oh, yeh? If the left can keep redefining terms, so can I. If everyone just starts using the phrase, what can anyone else do about it?

[Dustbunny]

Interesting.

[John Jorsett]

Thanks for bringing up that up for the four millionth time in an FR thread.

What, how dare I repeat something someone else has said, even if it's my first time? I don't need your permission. Deal with it.

[dr_lew]

I always figured C.E. = Christian Era, which is an historical rather than a spiritual designation, so who could object?

[SunkenCiv]

Making the observation that BCE is semantically different from BC is neither necessary nor original, and is a complete waste of bandwidth and time.

People use BCE and CE, and they don't need your permission. Deal with it.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 4/21/2006, thanks again blam.

[NorthMountain]

That's NOT what the inventors of "BCE" and "CE" meant.

"CE" is the "Common Era". Whatever that means.

Those terms are explicitly an attempt to purge "Anno Domini", "Year of Our Lord", from the vocabulary.

[MotorCityBuck]

From the internets....
The use of BCE/CE in place of BC/AD dates back to at least the early 1700s12. The use of “common era” in place of A.D. first appears in German in the 17th century CE and in English in the 18th1. These abbreviations have been in frequent use by Jewish academics for more than 100 years, but became more widespread in the later part of the 20th century, replacing BC/AD in a number of fields, notably science and academia2.