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From: "James M. Pfundstein" <jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Subject: cow-heard (was: a cure for hubris)
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A minor point, not worth having a _vacca_ over.

George Pesely wrote:

>I don't know if it is a good sign that the word "hubris" is becoming 
>so widely known, or a bad sign that the artists apparently don't 
>know that there's a difference between vaccination and inoculation.

There is a difference, but not in the most common meanings of these words:

e.g., from the OED entry on "vaccination":

>The inoculation of an individual with any vaccine in order to induce or
>increase immunity. [The use of the term for diseases other than smallpox is
>due to Pasteur (Trans. 7th Session Internat. Med. Congr. (1881) I. 90).]

There is a worm-type virus called Hybris. Since virus-protection 
programs contain parts of the virsues (as descriptions) that they 
protect against, can we consider them electronic vaccines?

JM("Mugitor")P
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