A huge yasher koach! (I enjoy all your posts but this one was exceptional.) Derech agav, a little trivia: Satmer Rebbe's strong opposition to modern Hebrew was related to something you mentioned. He was extremely bothered by the fact that chashmal became the word for electricity. He say it as an extreme kind of profanation of the sacred.
A huge yasher koach! (I enjoy all your posts but this one was exceptional.) Derech agav, a little trivia: Satmer Rebbe's strong opposition to modern Hebrew was related to something you mentioned. He was extremely bothered by the fact that chashmal became the word for electricity. He say it as an extreme kind of profanation of the sacred.