05-16-2014, 12:09 AM
Quote:How about a sensible point to start dating from: The invention of writing!
That was around 3500 years ago making today's date 5511 AW (after writing) It makes sense to me because there wouldn't have been any way to record dates before writing!
Unfortunately, your "AW"-- "After Writing"-- would negate all the posts just written. We could only communicate verbally, like they did in the Stone Age.
Which reminds me-- we could use BI and AI, "Before Ice" (the Ice Age) and "After Ice," but what about all the years people were living IN the Ice Age. They get left out! :woot:
No thank you. I'll stick with the standard socially-incorrect BC (Before Computers) and AD (After Devolvement) because, well, I'm a barbarian. :whistle:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
