28 Feb
2021
28 Feb
'21
4:38 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 18:00, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
Use of the term {raS'IS} is a holdover from ancient forms of medicine.
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. (Some vaccines are produced from a master seed bank or using a seed lot system, so maybe Dr. Okrand was thinking of that.) -- De'vID