Re: Swiss govt agency declares Linux/OSS crapware "not a sufficientalternative to Microsoft products"

[David Kastrup]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Whilst "Eigentum" is usually translated into the English "property",
> it's meaning in German is wider: literally "self stuff".

Uh no.  "Eigen" is not "self".  It is sort of "belonging", "inherent",
"characteristic".  Mathematicians know "Eigenvalues" which are
characteristic traits of projections.

> "Geistlich" means literally "religious" or "spiritual",

But "geistig" is not "geistlich".

> and in fact is cognate to "ghostly".

Not really.

> Translating it into "intellectual" is taking liberties indeed.

Not really.  "geistig" is pretty much "mental".  The
Körper/Geist-dichotomy is "body/mind".  "intellectual" is only slightly
off for "geistig", whereas "ghostly" is complete bull.

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David Kastrup