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> Calling it the Flax Age would be like calling Prebellum Southern US "the cotton age" Antebellum

• lopmotr 7y ago
  Prewar. Since everybody knows what that means instead of these weird Latin words. It's even worse because the choice of language contains information about which war it refers to! Latin for the American civil war and English for WWII. Let the context determine which war you're talking about, not some arbitrary choice of language.
  • knolax 7y ago
    How about pre-Civil War and pre-WWII?
  • dwoozle 7y ago
    In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.
  • Khaine 7y ago
    But, your using the Latin word bellum for war.
• jacobolus 7y ago
  “Prebellum” and “antebellum” are both ways of saying “before the war” in Latin. There is nothing wrong with the former term, other than its relative rarity. If you search you can find “prebellum” being used (in the same sense as “antebellum”, e.g. with reference to the US South before the 1860s) in various academic papers, newspaper articles, etc. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22prebellum%22&tbm=bks https://www.google.com/search?q=%22prebellum%22&tbm=bks https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prebellum https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prebellum