Google patent loss: no guilt

Posted May 11, 2011 18:20 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: Google patent loss: no guilt by giraffedata
Parent article: A victory for the trolls

"Schuld" as a noun is "debt" in English. "Schuldig" as an adjective is "guilty."

Google patent loss: no guilt

Posted May 11, 2011 19:03 UTC (Wed) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link] (1 responses)

Is "schuldig" just for the verdict of a criminal trial, or also for the emotion? I.e. if you're supposed to be on a diet and you give in to your craving and eat a whole cheesecake, do you feel schuldig?

I remember now that another term used in legal circles for what a criminal court decides is "liability," as in, "the accused is criminally liable." "Liable" is the same word to refer to simply owing someone money, guilt-free.

Google patent loss: no guilt

Posted May 12, 2011 11:44 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

As a (somewhat lapsed) dutch speaker, "liability" to me is the more accurate base meaning for "schuld", leading to expanded meanings of "debt", "blame" and "guilt" in different contexts. In dutch you can indeed feel "schuldig".