Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Alan Oh Paragon of Guh-N? Linguistics Mackenzie wrote: > > > [... amusing nonsense ...] > > > Geistiges Eigentum in German is what "intellectual property" in English > > you silly. > > What an amazing assertion! Do you have any evidence to back that up?
I've already provided the "evidence" silly. Try also http://www.ip.mpg.de/ww/de/pub/aktuelles.cfm (Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs- und Steuerrecht) and click on "English". You'll get http://www.ip.mpg.de/ww/en/pub/news.cfm (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law) Geistiges Eigentum <==> Intellectual Property Got it? > > "Geistig" does not mean "intellectual", except as a subsidiary meaning. > Its primary meaning is "spiritual" or "religious", or perhaps "mental". > As I said, "geistig" is cognate with "ghostly". > > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geistiges_Eigentum > > > "Unter Geistigem Eigentum (auch intellektuelles Eigentum, engl. > > intellectual property) werden absolute Rechte an immateriellen G?tern > > verstanden. > > Yes. "Immateriellen Guetern" = "ghostly goods" or "immaterial goods" or > "goods lacking any substance". It cannot be "intellectual property". Intellectual property is a form of intangible property you idiot. Stocks and bonds are other forms of intangible property. > > > Geistiges Eigentum wird daher auch als Immaterialgueterrecht > > bezeichnet. Inhaber eines solchen Rechts ist z. B. der Anmelder eines > > Patents oder der Schoepfer eines urheberrechtlichen Werks. " > > Seems likely. But there's no "property" anywhere in all that. There's > copyright, which is an abstract right, not anything of any material > substance. All the euros on your bank account is your intangible property silly. No? Go to doctor Alan. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
