'Reset' Translates as 'Capitulation'

'Reset' Translates as 'Capitulation'

Last March, during a visit to Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was made to look foolish when she presented her host, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with a box festooned with a button marked "Reset" in English. The idea was to have a photo-op designed to symbolize President Obama's ambition to put U.S. relations with the Kremlin on a new, more positive footing after the bilateral strains of the George W. Bush years.

Unfortunately for the Secretary, her crack State Department team mistranslated the term and the word on...