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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Expressing Anno Domini
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Sat Sep 23 04:56:59 2017
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:39:28 +0200
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On Sep 22, 2017 19:23, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
I think this is the same as in English. If I say "It happened in the year
300" no one knows if I mean CE or BCE, but they assume I mean CE.
If we had an easy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that for
BCE.
But BCE years are not negative years. There's no "year zero".
What's wrong with {*Christ* bov nubwI' DIS wa'} etc?
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il_quote">On Sep 22, 2017 19:23, "qurgh lungqIj" <<a href=3D"m=
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in English. If I say "It happened in the year 300" no one knows i=
f I mean CE or BCE, but they assume I mean CE.=C2=A0<br><br>If we had an ea=
sy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that for BCE.</div>=
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">But BCE years are not negative years. There's no "year zero"=
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{*Christ* bov nubwI' DIS wa'} etc?</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></di=
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