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OP Thanks Wordwind, we must continually strive to drag Bobyoungblat kicking and screaming into the Twenty-First Century.
My use of the time-designator "BP" was a matter of consistency. It was the preferred unit of measurement in the book that I quote. Besides WW, as you point out, using the phrase 30,000 years ago and then giving a date of 28,000 BC is unnecessarily clumsy.
Certainly I agree, Mr. Boby, that the silly substitute of "BCE" for "BC" and "CE" for "AD" is stupid. I think that an accord with past literature and research requires that AD and BC be retained for historical times, and all other designations are just contrived "PC" bullshit.
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