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in reply to a message by יֶרֶד
Google turns up דואר זבל with the meaning spam(? Since I do not know any Hebrew, I looked for word associations e.g. http://tinyurl.com/aw2k4. Sheepishly apologetic if I am wrong ... oh why do people draw me into conversations about things I know not). As spam is garbage, is this the same zevel? And is it the same Semitic root as the one that gives prince?
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I do not think it is the same root as prince but I could be mistaken. 'Zevel' would seem to denote wastage of any sort, used in the Modern Hebrew to describe compter spam (which is to say, digital disuse). דואר זבל(dọär zevel) means "spam-mail" in English.
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