Rigor Germanic
'The Greek so useless addressed the movement of bodies and puzzled the world for 2000 years: his style of sitting in chairs to ask questions was more appropriate to mathematics and ethics than physics "( Finger of Galileo, Peter Atkins. Translated by Patricia and Jorge Marques da Fonseca Lima . Review of Ana Isabel Silveira. Lisbon: Gradiva, 2007, p. 112).
only serves to illustrate because it is correct. The latest trend, to what I see, it's spell with initial capital only the old gentile! Celts, Mayans, Aztecs ... Believe it. All sanctioned by reviewers, I guess. Only people like me and Harri Meier († 1990), a simple conceituadíssimo Romanist, advocate the opposite (and grammar, of course): 'In Ethnonyms, it requires a capital when it comes to the population as a whole, is that the community is expressed in the plural or singular ( the Portuguese, " like the Portuguese cod " = " the Portuguese"), while precisely the individualization require tiny ( many Americans, any American, Brazilian ) '( Trials of Romance Philology, Vol 1 Harri Meier. Rio de Janeiro: Griffin, 1974, p. 199). Just do not do so when the "book style" publishers send to the contrary.
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