Monday, August 29, 2011

B.C. and A.D.



Please note that:


the following terms b.c.e. and c.e. will never appear in these pages, unless ironically, sneeringly, or with obvious disapproval;


only B.C. and A.D. will be used;


we may protest against something, but we will never protest anything;


newspeak is never spoken or written here, unless ironically, sneeringly, or with obvious disapproval.


I am feeling particularly nasty today.





3 comments:

Modulation on the vine said...

Yet you are happy to retain the pagan names for the days of the week and months of the year!

ignorant redneck said...

CE and BCE are deliberate attempts to erase the consciousness of Christianity from western scholarship. i remember when I first heard them, in the 70s, and my prof made that very plain to us, explicitly.

lefty, you're so right not use them! I am writing this, in the Year of our Lord, 2011.

BTW--some of your trolls seem to be very ignorant of linguistic emergence and the English language.

Mike Cliffson said...

Cheer doubleplus up!
Which is not to say you`re wrong!
Or, modern mental state: Beesee: before the sixties.
A personal pet hate you can have free, gratis, and for nothing:In the early sixties, "THE Youth" with the article both as a bad literal translation, then from French, but not from French alone , and a Romance-language countries' concept(and, I suspect Germany, probably began with wurther), started grating on my ears.