The place for the grammatic cum religious discussion that will probably bore 3/4 of my friends

[ars_longa]

To get an idea what it was about you can go here and here. I wrote about the same issue in at least one more place, but, unfortunately, I lost the link. :(

P.S. Oh, and here is another bit of the same quite branched discussion - http://www.livejournal.com/users/elynross/213029.html

Comments

[irrelative.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree with you, I'm afraid.
Apollo (from your example) by no mean belongs to the same class of beings as God of Christians, Jews or Muslims (or Brahman of Hindu). The origin of confusion is the fact that the same word "G-O-D" is being used for both. Therefore capitalization or no capitalization is used to distinguish God (as in Absolute) from god (as in deity, ghost or demon) :-)

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[global-kid.livejournal.com]

Dear Ars_longa,

I'll vault to Chicago over the Pond for a couple of days early next week. Have never been to Chicago. Am really curious for this cradle of House and Dub. Is there any places (not too crowded) for an ignorant москаль to get a taste of what these things were and are in your blessed town? I mean a place to sit and sip a stout and relax... and listen to this heavenly dreadlock music? Sun/mon night? Or where to call/surf?