On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:32:02PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > commit b48227366fd1589a2350e017c70bd1a7d148f048 > Author: David Lawrence Ramsey <[email protected]> > Date: Wed Jun 22 16:30:44 2011 -0500 > > Add capitalization fixes. > > diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/gods.txt > b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/gods.txt > index eb5660d..cfc920d 100644 > --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/gods.txt > +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/gods.txt > s/god/God/g
Uhm, this appears to be wrong. The difference between lowercase "god" and capitalized "God" is that the latter refers to the "only" god that the speaker claims is the only true one. A good in-depth discussion can be found at: http://atheism.about.com/od/doesgodexist/a/capitalization.htm # we capitalize God in the [specific god case] because we are essentially using # it as a proper name - just as if we were talking about Apollo, Mercury, or # Odin. # Confusion is caused by the fact that Christians don't typically ascribe a # personal name to their god - some use Yahweh or Jehovah, but that is # pretty rare. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization) says: # Names by which gods are known are capitalized, including God, Allah, and # Vishnu. The word god is generally not capitalized if it is used to refer # to the generic idea of a deity, nor is it capitalized when it refers to # multiple gods, e.g., Roman gods. There may be some confusion because the # god of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is rarely referred to by a # specific name, but simply as God (see Writing divine names). Other names # for these three Abrahamic faiths, such as Elohim, Yahweh, and Lord, are # also capitalized. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
