Re: CHAT: enterprise

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, David Peterson wrote:

>     This was meant to go to the list, because I'm actually curious as to
> where "ob" came from.
>
> In a message dated 10/3/01 4:34:45 PM, makeenan@SYR.EDU writes:
>
> << Could someone tell me what the Ob prefix means? I've seen it around alot
> lately and would like to know what I'm reading :) >>
>
>     I've understood it to mean "about", or "in relation to".  Did it come
> from the English word "about", or the Russian word "ob" which means "about"
> and is used in front of words that begin with vowels ("o" otherwise)?
>
> -David
It's an abbreviation of "obligatory."  As in, "here's the obconlang
content" meaning "here's the obligatory conlang content, because I feel
bad for being so off topic."

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