Posted 2/9/2010 11:36 am
I used to use "BCE" a lot but no one knew what WTF it meant. Now I mostly say "x thousand years ago" and bypass the problem altogether.
I once got into an argument with an Xtian (non-Catholic) who seriously asked "If BC means 'Before Christ' and AD means 'After Death', what happened to the years in between?".
He was pissed when I told him AD meant "Anno Domini" and not "After Death".
Posted 2/9/2010 11:45 am
I'm inclined to use BC, because everyone knows what it means (retards excluded).
But this advert is probably going in front of US lawyers. As a sector, they tend to be argumentative douchebags and Jewish. So I may have to squash my better judgement and go with BCE.
Is this just for the US market? If it's for the rest of the English speaking world, use BC/AD - just about nobody outside of the US has a fucking clue what CE/BCE are.
In fact, most Americans over 50 or who have never been to college don't know what they are, either - and I have never met anyone who knew "CE/BCE" who didn't also know "AD/BC" - the whole thing seems like a pointless innovation to me.
