[ExI] 1984 and Orwell's Warnings

[spike]

> Olga Bourlin
> Subject: Re: [ExI] 1984 and Orwell's Warnings
> 
> From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
> 
> > Even though I am a devout, practicing, orthodox, and upstanding 
> > atheist, I go ballistic whenever I see someone trying to 
> drop "B.C." 
> > down the memory-hole so that we can replace it with 
> "B.C.E.".  ...
> 
> Really ... you go ballistic?  Because you want to keep "Anno 
> Domini?" ... Olga 

I would recommend BP (Before Present) to be used for long term retrodating
and BPC for Before Present Calendar in place of BC, and CE for less than
2008 BP.  A lot of us have hardwired into our brains the whole BC concept,
but we can relearn.

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