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Not so much Protestant tradition as Germanic languages. The German word for debt "Schuld" also means guilt, fault, and blame.
by stevoski 10y ago
Not so much Protestant tradition as Germanic languages. The German word for debt "Schuld" also means guilt, fault, and blame.
- pluma 10y agoNote that in German the word is generally used in plural when talking about debt and singular when talking about guilt/blame. "My fault" -> "Meine Schuld" "My debt" -> "Meine Schulden" I think both also behave as mass nouns, so there's rarely any ambiguity.
- jakub_g 10y agoInteresting. In Polish OTOH "debt" is a separate word, but I just realized that "to owe someone" and "to be guilty" is the same verb.