A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

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6 total messages Started by Gregd... Commander Krugannal Fri, 22 Dec 1989 03:19

#581

Author: Gregd... Commander Krugannal
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 03:19

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      Mikel Stromberg (dan...@milton.acs.washington.edu) writes
   >A.D., which stands for Ammnio Dommini, or After God.  Jesus Christ was
   >born sometime around 35B.C.  (Which doesn't mean 'Before Christ' but I
 
      Ammnio Dommini means "In the year of our Lord." it does not
   meand After God. And B.C. does mean Before Christ. (Though 
   some secularist use B.C.E for Before Common Era.) 
     I think we can all agree that Christ was not born in A.D. 1 or
   1 B.C. There are various estimates but most likely, he was born
   around 5 or 6 B.C. (though I have seen good arguments for other
   dates as well.) (Oh, btw, the correct form is "A.D. year" and 
   "year B.C." )
 
      But, now that I have put in my two cents, let's drop the 
   century thing. It gets boring.

Re: A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

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Author: tarv... Tapani Tarvainen
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 07:36

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In article <11212.744...@mts.rpi.edu> Greg_d...@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:

>      Ammnio Dommini means "In the year of our Lord." 

Actually it's Anno Domini, and means "in the year of the Lord."
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarv...@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)

Re: A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

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Author: Never Kid A Kidder
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 19:17

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	 Ammnio Dommini means "In the year of our Lord." it does not

Actually, this probably means `in the birth fluid of the Lord'...

Re: A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

#583

Author: rod... Rodney Peck II
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 05:39

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hey..
They just talked about this end of the decade thing on Letterman.
They say that the decade doesn't end until the end of 1990.  So there.
Finally an authoratative answer.  (too bad he's wrong)


--
Rodney

Re: A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

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Author: bri... Brian Gordon
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1989 17:48

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In article <RODNEY.89D...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu> rod...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
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>hey..
>They just talked about this end of the decade thing on Letterman.
>They say that the decade doesn't end until the end of 1990.  So there.
>Finally an authoratative answer.  (too bad he's wrong)

I don't get it -- how does giving the correct answer (the decade doesn't end
until the end of 1990) make him wrong?

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Re: A.D. vs B.C. or is it 2000+-1

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Author: cs4... Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 00:07

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In article <RODNEY.89D...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu> rod...@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
$They just talked about this end of the decade thing on Letterman.
$They say that the decade doesn't end until the end of 1990.  So there.
$Finally an authoratative answer.  (too bad he's wrong)

   No, in fact he is quite correct.  The first year A.D. was year one,
so the first decade ran from years one to ten inclusive ... as in
the last year in a decade is a year that ends in zero.  Such as 1990.
We are still in the 199th decade and will be for about 362 days as I
write this.

   Similarly, the century doesn't end when 1999 ends, either.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4...@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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