03-17-2004, 01:28 AM
Yes. I quite like 'Christian Era', and hope one day to be able to use the phrase, if I ever hear someone say 'C.E' aloud in cold blood.<br>
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"I don't use 'Christian Era'" I shall say, "I'm not enough of a believer, I'm afraid. Good old Anno Domini is my thing." That'll fox 'em. I shall wander away while they're trying to explain.<br>
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To be honest, I could live with the change, if they took 2000 as year one. Good luck to them, say I, just as I do with people who learn Esperanto and tell me we'll all speak it one day. It's the revisionist nonsense of referring to Roman dates in that way, or saying Queen Victoria died in 1901 CE. That's when I start to see red.<br>
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Cheers all and thank you, Robert.<br>
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Conn<br>
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"I don't use 'Christian Era'" I shall say, "I'm not enough of a believer, I'm afraid. Good old Anno Domini is my thing." That'll fox 'em. I shall wander away while they're trying to explain.<br>
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To be honest, I could live with the change, if they took 2000 as year one. Good luck to them, say I, just as I do with people who learn Esperanto and tell me we'll all speak it one day. It's the revisionist nonsense of referring to Roman dates in that way, or saying Queen Victoria died in 1901 CE. That's when I start to see red.<br>
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Cheers all and thank you, Robert.<br>
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Conn<br>
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