BCE/CE and BC/AD both maintain significant usage even in academic contexts.
Also for a picture like this is it necessary to specify?
I could say something like “I could be using another dating system, like the Islamic dating system”, but the truth is that I use epoch markers on this comm for aesthetic reasons - namely, if I feel a title looks strange without ‘AD’ in some vague, inexpressible way.
To the second point agreed, very good reasoning. As for the BCE/CE, sure both are still used…even in academic contexts. But there is a large push to move strictly to BCE/CE. So I try to use it exclusively.
Isn’t BCE/CE the more commonly used terms now? Also for a picture like this is it necessary to specify?
BCE/CE and BC/AD both maintain significant usage even in academic contexts.
I could say something like “I could be using another dating system, like the Islamic dating system”, but the truth is that I use epoch markers on this comm for aesthetic reasons - namely, if I feel a title looks strange without ‘AD’ in some vague, inexpressible way.
To the second point agreed, very good reasoning. As for the BCE/CE, sure both are still used…even in academic contexts. But there is a large push to move strictly to BCE/CE. So I try to use it exclusively.