^^^^
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
as a teen my wiccan friend was a stickler for it. I mostly see it used by muslims and in academia
― ogmor, Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
I think, slightly bizarrely, Julian Cope was the first person I ever heard use it!
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
don't care, seems like changing everything would be a massive waste of time.
if it's arbitrary anyways, who's to say that once you change everything people wouldn't think oh let's change it again to something better.
put your energy into something useful.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:17 (five years ago) link
what i want to know is when are we going to rename the 'early modern' and 'modern' eras. that was shortsighted.
― ogmor, Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
I love "Modernism" as an ever-receding historical era. Except NP eras are really located on history tbf.
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 June 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
no eras, fucking autocorrect
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 June 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
all years should just be given as number of years + or - relative to the present one
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
so 2017 would be -1 but next year it would be -2
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
just work out when the universe began and count from there. welcome to 13799131678 everyone.
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
let's not forget about how it would change the way we listen to songs like 1999.
let's just roll it back thirty years or so so we can listen to 1999 with the same kind of anticipation we used to
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
I just hate the mimsy use of BCE/CE, whereby they keep on using the BC/AD system, but try to pretend there's no Christian connection by making use of an utterly dull and basically meaningless new phrase.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison)
I understand this if you take the point of view that they ("they") are trying to maintain a Christocentric calendar but hiding that fact so there's no pushback. However, seeing as the calendar isn't going to change any time soon, isn't it better to change the terminology so you're not forcing non-Christians to talk about years in very overtly Christian terms?
Also it's not that new, Common Era phraseology stems from around the 18th century.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
just work out when the universe began and count from there. welcome to 13799131678 everyone.years are too solar-centric, we should be planning for when we've gone intergalactic.
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 28 June 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
there are some really good ideas in this thread
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link