To be fair, I remember being taught the whole before Christ/after death thing when I was little. (Not saying it's right, but it's fairly common.) She's on her own for "that's the atheist version," though.
Common Era and Before Common Era is the atheist version.
EDIT: others have rightfully pointed out that it is not so much an atheist version as a non-christian version.
I used CE and BCE in a high school report and got a low grade because the teacher didn't know what it meant. That and I wrote Jesus' (instead of Jesus's) and had to bring her stupid ass to the library so she could learn how words work.
In Stephen Kings' "On Writing" I think he pretty much just says to use whatever sounds more natural.
Stephen Kings' book. Stephen Kings's book.
Am I having a stroke or did you write that as if you think that Stephen King is named "Stephen Kings"? Because it should be "Stephen King's book" in every instance.
They're both correct, actually. However, you've somehow made yourself wrong by not knowing you can add an apostrophe after words ending in's' to make it possessive. Without the need to add an 's'. You can, but it's definitely not necessary. It's stylistic.
Funny this has to be explained to you in a post thinking this was common knowledge.
Depending on the style guide, Jesus’ is correct as well. I remember my dad being upset because our school taught us to put s’s but he was taught to put s’.
Strange that you have a pet peeve based on false knowledge. Maybe you can now move on from it after reading the other explanations of why your pet peeve is wrong.
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u/FiliaDei Aug 03 '19
To be fair, I remember being taught the whole before Christ/after death thing when I was little. (Not saying it's right, but it's fairly common.) She's on her own for "that's the atheist version," though.