Hi Dennis,

I believe Wagner means that AD (as you say,short for Anno Domini, "in the
year of Our Lord") is in Latin and BC (short for "Before Christ") is in
English, instead of AC (Ante Christum) if you wanted to make it Latin for
both.

Sean

At 08:38 AM 6/22/99 +1000, you wrote:
>At 09:41 21/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Oh, I see my mistake, AC/DC is used in Spanish, some other languages and
>>also in Portuguese (my born language - it means "Antes de Cristo &
>>Depois de Cristo), and it went out without noticing the lack of
>>translation. Yes, it sounds funny because the possible confusion with
>>the electrical current *in this forum*, probably not noticed in some
>>other forums not related to electronics.
>>By the way, is this a nice mixing of languages or what? (Anno Domini &
>>Before Christ)
>>Wagner
>>
>
>Humm, let me see Anno Domini lattin for after death? Not from what I can
>remember. If I recall this means "in the year of our Lord". I cannot
>remember the Lattin of before, but perhaps it is just that:) So Bfore
>Christ would then also be correct. On this point I amy stand corrected, but
>at least is is not Japanese.
>
>Dennis
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>>Tim Hamel wrote:
>>>
>>> In a message dated 6/18/99 8:30:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>> wagnerl@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>>>
>>> > The main idea is
>>> >  that the transaction between AC and DC was from 001 AC to 001 DC at the
>>> >  next year, thus never existing the year "zero".
>>>
>>> <Laughing histerically>  You know you do too much engineering when...you
>>> refer to dates as AC/DC <g>  Minor correction Wagner,  I think you
meant AD
>>> (Anno Domini, in the year of the Lord), and BC (Before Christ).  I'm still
>>> laughing <g>.  Not at you Wagner, please, I mean no offense.
>>>
>>> Tim H.
>>
>>
>
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