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I was replying to "we still call it..." "We" are officially not calling it "the year of the lord" in secular contexts because inclusive language is really impo
by nommm-nommm 11y ago
I was replying to "we still call it..." "We" are officially not calling it "the year of the lord" in secular contexts because inclusive language is really important. The language has changed. Certainly it has a meaning traced back to religion for historical reasons but so do a lot of other things and it's inconvenient to throw out very well established conventions sometimes. And, yes, new terminology takes a while to catch on.
- pc86 11y agoI first heard BCE/CE maybe ten years ago or a little less. I have literally never heard anyone outside of a college classroom use it in a way other than making fun of people using it. We can say what the "standard" or "correct" is all we want, but if 99.999% of people use BC/AD, it's BC/AD.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoYes, it often takes years for new terminology to catch on and sometimes it doesn't. If a whole generation grows up seeing it in textbooks, and hearing it in the classroom I have no doubt that it will catch on eventually. Most people don't talk BCE outside of a classroom anyways.
- mcphage 11y ago> I first heard BCE/CE maybe ten years ago or a little less. Well, if your username is a guide, and you were born in '86, then that makes you 29 or 30, so 10 years ago would be 19 or 20, so in college. That makes sense for the first time for someone to hear about it; it takes a while for ideas to trickle down into elementary & HS textbooks.
- emodendroket 11y agoOK. The vast majority of English speakers refer to it in those terms in almost every context. Is that better?