Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 64/@comment-108.210.86.239-20160707011150/@comment-5393732-20160707024522

Regardless of whether or not Latin is a dead language, BCE and CE are far more applicable than BC and AD, for several reasons

1. As Hippie said, using terms that are shortened forms of phrases from two different languages can be very confusing at times

2. BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno domini, which rouchly translates to "Year of the lord") are both tied back to Christianity, and most of the planet is not Christian (hell, most of the country isn't even Christian)

3. BCE and CE both refer to one singular term, "common era"

Also, I don't know if Mind was joking or not, but BC definitely doesn't stand for 'Before Christmas'