On 05/09/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As to the second argument - did anyone ever
provide any evidence to back up
the assertion that BCE/CE in academe was a US thing, with non-US academics
using BC/AD?
I ran seachers on the journal databases I had acess to. BCE didn't
really feature US or otherwise.
Hah. So those claiming it was the standard practice in US academia
should in fact be required to produce their evidence?
Of course one deeds to remember that there are societies, such as the
one outraged by Janet Jackson's breast, where political correctness is
more important than personal freedom. :-)
Ec