Excuse my ignorance but is this the year 2009 AD? (It's the AD part I need to know) Or do we not use AD anymore? I know that BC is before Christ. Please help thanks!
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nadjadee
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im pretty sure its CE (common era) ...i think...bc doesnt exist anymore either lol, its BCE im pretty sure,(be4 common era)
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Many still use AD, although CE and ACE are considered "proper" by many. And CE has been said to stand for Common Era, Common Event, Christian Era, etc. So no one agrees. I've always thought AD had a poetic ring to it, so I use it.
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Yes, this is Anno Domini 2009, "The Year of our Lord 2009" in Latin. The Latin term Anno Domini comes from Christian religious practice, and the term BC, Before Christ, was adopted to match it. Non-Christians have sometimes been upset that the system of dates shared by the international community is based on the Christian religion. It would be far, far to costly actually to change that system, so people have tended to just change the name to "Common Era" or "CE" for recent dates using what is, after all, the Common dating system. This means you have to have a name for dates before the start point of that system, which is therefore Before Common Era, BCE. If you are writing for people of many cultures, it is polite to use the neutral CE and BCE rather than the religiously rooted AD and BC.
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