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On 08/08/2015 13:57, talishi wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 10:21 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>> Doesn't CE mean Before Christ?
>
> It translates to AD, and we use it because we can't quite bring
> ourselves to say "The Year of Our Lord".   Particularly since he isn't
> our Lord.   By the same token we use BCE, Before Common Era, rather than
> BC, Before Christ, since we're not entirely sure there was a Christ, and
> even if there was, we don't think his birth was such a watershed.  If I
> had my druthers we'd use Ab Urbe Condita and add 753 years to every date.

It's a bit of political correctness bum fluff.
So now we use a non-Christian term invented to avoid giving potential 
offence to non-Christians and used it to date events when we fucked up 
the non-Christian world sixteen ways from Sunday.

It's also quite inconsistent.  We are expected to switch from AD to BCE 
but we keep the same count-from-the-birth-of-the allege-saviour 
numbering of years, and we do not bother to change religious names of 
days or months...