--- Vicki Rosenzweig <vr(a)redbird.org> wrote:
Many Jewish scholars prefer CE/BCE. I'd argue
strongly for using
those terms (rather than AD/BC) if dates need to be
identified in articles
on subjects like Jewish history or the Talmud.
Oh, and an idle question: "A.D." is Latin, so makes
as much sense in
a French context as an English one (in both cases,
validated by custom
and familiarity), but what's the French equivalent
of "B.C."?
We don't use AD *at all* in everyday life. Except on
some catholic tombal stones maybe ? and probably
religious catholic people. This is far too much asking
to reference to our "domini=seigneur" when talking
about time. More than 10 % of our population is from
north african countries also. Muslim usually. Why
would they talk about their lord ?
What we use is Av. J.C. (BC) and Ap. J.C. (AD)
Av is for avant (before)
Ap is for apr�s (after)
J.C. stands for J�sus-Christ.
So these references are entirely factual, relying upon
an historical man, without taking care of his holiness
or not. The only *detail* is the real of JC birth is
not at the right place.
Though our culture is mostly relying on christian
concepts, we try to separate church matters very much
from other matters. That's the way the constitution
was made.
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