<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 18:00, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Use of the term {raS'IS} is a holdover from ancient forms of medicine.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence or an Okrandian joke, but in Chinese, the word for vaccine (疫苗 yìmiáo) happens to contain the character for seedling (苗). The word comes from the transliteration of the English word "immun(ization)" and has nothing to do with seeds.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>(Some vaccines are produced from a master seed bank or using a seed lot system, so maybe Dr. Okrand was thinking of that.)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">De'vID</div></div>