On 08/11/06, Michael W. Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand everybody's points on using BC / AD...however, it is really > that difficult conceptually to distinguish between BC and BCE, and AD and > CE? > I think we shouldn't insult the average citizens' intelligence and assume > that BCE/CE is just too hard for them to grasp. I don't have a PhD or a > masters, but I can easily get this distinction. My gut tells me that your > 'average Joe' isn't going to struggle with it.
When this debate came up on Wikipedia, it turned into a US vs UK argument (some US academics wanted BCE, the UK ones thought they were being idiots). Will Citizendium be making a point of being more US-centric than Wikipedia? Moves like this could see it being taken as being such. - d. _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
