What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age?

Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by optimuspaul on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:13PM (#21587993)

> Calling it the Flax Age would be like calling Prebellum Southern US "the cotton age"

Antebellum

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by jacobolus on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:09PM (#21617251)

“Prebellum” and “antebellum” are both ways of saying “before the war” in Latin. There is nothing wrong with the former term, other than its relative rarity. If you search you can find “prebellum” being used (in the same sense as “antebellum”, e.g. with reference to the US South before the 1860s) in various academic papers, newspaper articles, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22prebellum%22&tbm=bks

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prebellum

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by lopmotr on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:42PM (#21588861)

Prewar. Since everybody knows what that means instead of these weird Latin words. It's even worse because the choice of language contains information about which war it refers to! Latin for the American civil war and English for WWII. Let the context determine which war you're talking about, not some arbitrary choice of language.

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by dwoozle on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:08PM (#21589606)

In the US “antebellum” refers to the Civil War and “prewar” to World War II.

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by knolax on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:51PM (#21588961)

How about pre-Civil War and pre-WWII?

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Re:What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age? by Khaine on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:40PM (#21589851)

But, your using the Latin word bellum for war.

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