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Curious what A.C. is?

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Portuguese equivalent to the English “BC” (“before Christ”)

A.C. - Antes de Cristo

The artist is from Brazil https://www.instagram.com/dragonartebr.official

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Oh nice! That makes good sense. Thank you for that!

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Thanks for the clarification! Is ‘aliens’ the same word in Portuguese or did the artist use an English word or was this a translation?

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I think it’s a loan word. The root “alien” exists in words like *alienado* (alienated) or *alienação* (alienation), but as a single word alien/aliens I think comes from English.

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Could be “alienígena”, but we use “alien” too. It’s shorter

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Same thing as AD but more archaic. No idea why the cartoonist used it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Christum_natum

Edit: Wait, that doesn’t make sense.

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It’s the same as BC, not AD

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Ah, ok, then it does make sense. I was confused. Still weird though.

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eyyyy a name check for my man Bede. Love that guy.

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No lol, don’t try to explain it if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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I literally said my explanation didn’t make sense. I’m not sure what more you want from me. I have yet to get my time machine in functional order. I think I misread the instructions from IKEA.

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