> As we see from his words writing ANY name of G-d in any language is
> prohibited. (As Rabbi Adlerstein pointed out Rabbi Solevechick was a
> competent posek and he apparently, at least according to Reb Hillel
> Markowitz's account, did not agree with this. He was in the minority and
> the majority opinion is that it is prohibited)
This misunderstands, I beleive, the approach of Rabbi Soloveitchik and the
many other poskim who agreed with his psak. They ruled that the English word
"god" is NOT a classical unique name for the the One above, but rather is
a generic term used for any diety, including for example the gods of
olympus or even in an adjectival sense of "a godly person." It was only
in those langugues that have unique words for the Almighty (like French)
that are always refernces to the One above that the kitzur is refering to.
English is not such a langugue.
In addition, there remains a fundamental dispute as to whether the halacha
really is in accordance with the psak of the kitzur shulchan aruch on this
matter. One can find a wealth of poskim -- early, late and modern -- who
rule that secular names for the One above are, even if unique -- are not
kodesh.
Michael Broyde