Just knowing there is a Hebrew word for “reset” will make you more knowledgeable about the language than an Israeli Internet service technician whose phone assistance I once had the misfortune to require. During a conference call with me and a technician from a different company, this zero clearly had no idea what the other tech support person was requesting when he asked her to “le’apes” (pronounced...
Word of the Day / Le’apes לאפס
Sometimes to move forward, you have to start again from scratch. Modern Hebrew has a talent for finding inspiration from unexpected nouns (and numbers) and turning them into verbs. Here’s another case of making something out of, well, nothing.
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